Bondarenko flies high in Lausanne - IAAF Diamond League

Ukrainian sets IAAF Diamond League record in Switzerland. 05 Jul 2013 By Phil Minshull | For the IAAF

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For the second year in a row, the men’s High Jump provided one of the outstanding highlights of the Athletissima meeting as Bohdan Bondarenko set an IAAF Diamond League record in Lausanne on Thursday night (4 July).

The Ukrainian continued his run of outstanding form, adding five centimetres to the 2.36m best he set just last weekend in Birmingham and improving his national record by one centimetre, an iconic mark which had stood to Rudolf Povarnitsyn since 1985, when he became the first man to jump 2.40m.

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