Three Olympic champions \u2013 Katerina Stefanidi (GRE\/2016), Katie Moon (USA\/2021), and Nina Kennedy (AUS\/2024) \u2013 compete at Zurich Main Station this year. Stefanidi was celebrating the winners of the test competition at the ticket hall, while her Olympic successors Moon and Kennedy answered some questions at a media conference.<\/p>\n
Nina Kennedy, the first Australian pole vault Olympic champion, had defeated all her opponents both at Zurich Main Station in 2023 and on Sechsel\u00e4utenplatz in 2022. She is determined to do the same for the third time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeltklasse Z\u00fcrich is my favourite meeting. We are all a little more relaxed after the Olympics. I have not improved my personal best so far this year, so I am still waiting for that,\u201d Kennedy said, referring to her result of last year \u2013 4.91m, an Oceanian indoor record.<\/p>\n
The Olympic champion is not focused on the 15-year-old meeting and world record of 5.06m at this stage. \u201cI would like to clear the 5m mark first. Only four women have done that so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moon looking forward to \u201cphenomenal\u201d atmosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Katie Moon, who had shared world championship gold with Kennedy in 2023, the performance level in the women\u2019s pole vault is higher than ever, however. In Paris, Moon took silver, defeating Alysha Newman (CAN\/3rd) and 17 (!) other finalists.<\/p>\n \u201cI had been very tired after Tokyo. So, I am wondering what I will be able to do after the Olympics this year,\u201d the 2021 Olympic champion admitted. \u201cI prefer to jump at indoor or city events. Zurich Main Station with its phenomenal atmosphere, the fans, and the music is the perfect setting for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Two Swiss athletes to compete in front of home crowd<\/strong><\/p>\n Zurich\u2019s Angelica Moser would love to make it to the podium after two fourth places in Paris 2024 and Zurich 2023. \u201cIt is not about beating Nina or Katie. I compete against myself and the bar. I had some health issues after the Olympic Games. Let\u2019s see how high I can jump with the support of my home crowd,\u201d said Moser, who is a member of the LC Z\u00fcrich track club.<\/p>\n Pascale St\u00f6cklin, the second Swiss jumper is based in Basel. The Swiss European championship finalist and Olympian has secured a spot in the star-studded line-up for the Wanda Diamond League event.<\/p>\n And who will win tomorrow\u2019s 100m duel at Letzigrund Stadium \u2013 Karsten Warholm or Mondo Duplantis? \u201cPole vaulters have only one answer to this question: Mondo, of course,\u201d Kennedy, Moon, and Moser agreed. They are all fans of their colleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The pole vaulters are set to fly high at Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich at Zurich Main Station for the fifth...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}