"I've been trying to get that height for a few years now and today I got the Diamond trophy on top what a day! said Olyslagers, who is shaping as the outstanding Australian hope in the Japanese capital. It's very special. I didn't ever imagine when I was a child that I would get to this height. I had this peace inside my heart and I'm still discovering what's possible for me."
"The 28-year-old outduelled world record holder, Ukraine's Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who equalled her season's best with a 2.02m leap but still succumbed to Olyslagers for the fourth time in this campaign. Olyslagers became only the third Australian woman after hurdler Sally Pearson (2017) and pole vaulter Nina Kennedy (2022, 2024) and seventh Australian athlete to take a Diamond League title, and it came after a brilliant season in which she had already won in Stockholm, Paris and Lausanne."
Nicola Olyslagers won the Diamond League Final in Zurich with a 2.04m high jump, setting Australian and Oceanian records and posting the world lead for the year. The 28-year-old added a centimetre to her previous best of 2.03m and cleared six heights without failure before topping at 2.04m. She outperformed world record holder and Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who cleared 2.02m and finished second for the fourth time this season. Olyslagers has won meets in Stockholm, Paris and Lausanne this season and failed three times at 2.06m, positioning her as a strong contender for the outdoor global title in Tokyo.
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