‘it’s Pretty Sick’: Claudia Hollingsworth Breaks Australian 800m Record

The rising middle-distance prima Claudia Hollingsworth has smashed nan Australian 800m grounds successful a clear connection of intent a period retired from nan world athletics championships successful Tokyo.

The 20-year-old Victorian stopped nan timepiece astatine 1min 57.67sec successful a red-hot women’s 800m won by Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson astatine nan Diamond League meet successful Silesia.

High jumper Nicola Olyslagers and rod vaulter Kurtis Marschall recorded podium finishes, but nan standout capacity came from Hollingsworth, who consigned Catriona Bisset’s erstwhile Australian people of 1min 57.78sec to history.

“It’s beautiful sick,” said an elated Hollingsworth.

“To travel down nan location consecutive and not beryllium judge but to look up astatine nan large surface and spot it was really exciting.

“To stock it pinch Abbey (Caldwell) and Catriona was truthful special, having 3 Aussies successful a title for illustration this is awesome.

“I sewage into this mentality that they are speedy races now and if you want it to beryllium quick, you person to beryllium successful it to triumph it.

“I’m trying to beryllium much fierce and effort different ways of racing starring into Tokyo because those heats are going to beryllium speedy starring into nan semis and hopefully nan final.”

Caldwell was conscionable down nan fifth-placed Hollingsworth successful 1min 57.70sec – besides quicker than Bisset’s erstwhile record.

The brace person been pre-selected to tally nan two-lap arena astatine nan world titles, pinch 1 vacancy still up for grabs.

Two-time Olympic precocious jump metallic medallist Olyslagers made a beardown return to title aft a six-week layoff, finishing 2nd pinch a champion clearance of 1.97m down only reigning Olympic and world champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2m).

Nicola Olyslagers competes successful nan women’s precocious jump astatine nan Silesia Diamond League meet. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Marschall – nan rod vault bronze medallist astatine nan 2023 world titles successful Budapest – vanished successful a necktie for 3rd astatine 5.90m arsenic he continues to flirt pinch nan elusive 6m barrier.

The peerless world record-holder Armand Duplantis from Sweden won nan arena pinch 6.10m up of Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis, pinch Marschall and Dutchman Menno Vloon tying for third.

“I had a spot of a tummy rumor successful nan past mates of days, truthful to travel distant pinch a 5.90 connected a scrappy day, I’m very happy,” Marschall said.

Paris Olympics 1500m metallic medallist Jessica Hull took connected nan different domiciled of pacemaker for her rival and friend Faith Kipyegon, who was attempting to break nan longstanding 3000m world record.

The Kenyan went agonisingly adjacent earlier being forced to settee for nan second-fastest clip successful history of 8min 7.04sec successful a title she won by almost half a minute.

The world grounds of 8min 6.11sec group by China’s Wang Junxia dates measurement backmost to 1993.

Rose Davies was nan first Australian crossed nan statement successful 4th spot successful 8mind 36.53sec.

In different Australian action successful Silesia, Linden Hall was sixth successful nan women’s 1500m and Cam Myers and 2022 Commonwealth champion Olli Hoare were sixth and eighth respectively successful nan men’s 1500m.