Bartoletta Double Again, Vadlejch World-Leading Javelin Mark in Kawasaki

Published by IAAF on May 8, 2016

IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 long jump champion Tianna Bartoletta completed a 100m-long jump double for the second straight year at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Sunday (8).

Bartoletta, working with a new approach point in the long jump, leapt 6.61m on her third attempt to win by six centimetres over Australia's Brooke Stratton, and then returned to the track about two hours later to triumph in the 100m, clocking 11.23 into a stiff 1.7mps breeze.

She was concise when describing her performance in the long jump: "Horrible."

In the American's own defence, she explained that her coach had instructed her to shorten her approach the night before the competition. Not having practised from that distance, she said she came up 50 or so centimetres short of the board on each jump.