Olympia: World Champion Lassizkene wins high jump gol

High-jump world champion Marija Lassizkene won Olympia-Gold for the first time and brings the first victory to the athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the last stadium decision. The 28-year-old prevailed in a gripping competition with 2.04 m in front of the Australian Nicola McDermott (2.02).

Bronze went to the Ukrainian exceptional Jaroslawa Mahutschich (19/200), with 2.06 m as number one in the world came to Tokyo. The EM-Third Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (Tübingen) came with 1.93 m on the tenth place.

The Russian athletics association has been suspended since the end of 2015 because of the doping scandal in the country. The World Association of World Athletics had admitted up to ten "neutral" athletes from Russia for Olympia.

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These started for the team of the Roc after Russia was excluded from the world's anti-doping agency for four years of Olympic Games and World Championships because of the manipulation of doping data. The International Sport Court Cas had halved the barrier for two years.