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PUMA athletes show strong performance at first Word Athletics Indoor Tour events of 2021

February 1, 2021

This weekend, several PUMA world-class athletes showed top performances and were able to win their first World Athletics Indoor competition of the year. Among them are Mondo Duplantis, Liadagmis Povea, Renaud Lavillenie, Juan Miguel Echevarria, Wilhem Belocian and Nooralotta Neziri.
It was the first performance test in 2021 for many PUMA track & field athletes this weekend. At the Word Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Meeting in Karsruhe, Germany, the ISTAF Indoor in Düsseldorf, Germany (both events were sponsored by PUMA) and the Indoor Athletics Meeting in Tourcoing, France. We saw several wins and personal bests for PUMA athletes at these events. There was also great pole vault action and a neck-and-neck race between PUMA athletes Mondo Duplantis and Renaud Lavillenie.

Under strict hygiene requirements and unfortunately without an audience, it was still possible to hold high-class competitions.

Pole Vault

Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, Swedish pole vaulter
The word record holder showed his best performance at the silver-level ISTAF Indoor Düsseldorf meeting. His winning mark was 6.01m. He even had the bar raised to a new world record at 6.19m but ran through his first attempt before calling it a day.

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Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter
Just a few hours after Mondo Duplantis cleared a pole vault world lead of 6.01m in Düsseldorf, Renaud Lavillenie went one centimetre higher in Tourcoing, France (6.02m).

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Long Jump &Triple Jump

Juan Miguel Echevarria, Cuban athlete specialising in the long jump
He showed the world’s best performance of the year with a jump of 8.18 meters and won the competition.

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Liadagmis Povea, Cuban athlete who specialises in the triple jump
She secured her first 10 points of the World Indoor Tour 2021 triple jump with 14.54 meters. This is her personal best and the world’s best performance for the year.

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Hurdles (60 m)

Nooralotta Neziri, Finnish hurdler
She won the competition in Karlsruhe and set her personal best with 7,92 secondsin the 60-meter hurdles event.

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Wilhem Belocian, French hurdler and sprinter
He won the men’s 60-meter hurdles in 7.49 seconds at the Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe.

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Mondo Duplantis jumps a WL of 6.01m

Armand “Mondo” Duplantis opens up his season with a new World Lead of 6.01m (19-8.50) at the 2021 ISTAF Indoor in Duesseldorf, Germany.

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