Oslo premiere: Ehammer jumps to Diamond League victory

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Simon Ehammer is the first Swiss to win a match at a Diamond League meeting. In Oslo, the Appenzeller wins the long jump with an attempt of 8.32 m.

Last Friday, Ehammer narrowly missed the first victory in Paris because he was two centimeters behind the Greek Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou. This time he left all competition behind; The American marquis Dendy came second with 8.26 m, Tentoglou third with 8.21.

With the second best jump of his career

Ehammer needed the second-best jump of his career to win at Bislett Stadium. After a failed attempt at the start of the race, he flew to 8.32 in perfect conditions on the second attempt. The 23-year-old only jumped in Götzis in May 2022, when he set the Swiss record with 8.45.

For Ehammer, the efforts of these days with the two Diamond League meetings and the upcoming Swiss Championships in Basel over the weekend have already paid off and the all-around problems with the zero points long jump at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and at the meeting in Gotzis have been forgotten. In Oslo, the run-up to his winning jump was perfect.

Before Ehammer, female athletes accounted for the only Swiss wins at Diamond League meetings. Two-time sprinter Ajla del Ponte (2020 in Monaco and Stockholm over 100 m), Léa Sprunger (2018 in Birmingham over 400 m hurdles) and Nicole Büchler (2017 in Stockholm in pole vault). (cat/SDA)

Source : Blick