Lake Makes History With British Record 2m Leap

Morgan Lake made history by becoming nan first British female to clear 2 metres successful nan precocious jump arsenic she vanished 3rd astatine nan Diamond League Final successful Zurich.

Lake soared complete nan people astatine nan first effort to go nan 86th female successful history to execute nan landmark height.

The 28-year-old, whose erstwhile individual champion of 1.99m was group successful February 2023, was visibly affectional aft surpassing nan important obstruction pinch conscionable complete a fortnight until nan commencement of nan World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo.

"It's crazy. I was truthful successful nan infinitesimal and past arsenic soon arsenic I cleared it I was conscionable truthful affectional because it is thing I've wanted to do my full life. I'm so, truthful happy," Lake said.

"Tonight I was for illustration 'I'm going to bask it and conscionable jump arsenic precocious arsenic I can'. It conscionable shows maine what I'm tin of if I conscionable judge successful myself."

Australia's Olympic metallic medallist Nicola Olyslagers claimed nan Diamond League trophy pinch a champion leap of 2.04m to conclusion Olympic and world champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2.02m).

After 3 consecutive first-time clearances astatine little heights, Lake required each 3 attempts to proceed successful nan title astatine 1.97m.

But successful a world-class line-up, pinch nan rounds passing by quickly astatine nan impermanent venue hosting Wednesday's section arena finals successful nan centre of Zurich, nan Briton maintained that momentum to fulfil a life ambition.

Having jumped 1.90m for nan first clip astatine nan property of 16 successful 2013, Lake admitted that she had believed she would jump 2 metres each twelvemonth since.

While it has not proven rather truthful straightforward, breaching that frontier earlier nan World Championships will animate belief that she tin execute a first world podium pursuing her fourth-place decorativeness successful Budapest 2 years ago.

"The main point betwixt now and Tokyo is to support nan assemblage patient and don't effort and alteration excessively much," said Lake.

"I deliberation I could person jumped 2.02m pinch my two-metre jump, truthful it's conscionable trusting my coach and what we're doing and do nan aforesaid again, really."

The two-day winner-takes each Diamond League Final is contested by nan athletes who amassed nan astir points crossed this season's 14 regular bid meetings.

The action successful Zurich concludes connected Thursday, pinch sum from 17:30 BST connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app, and unrecorded connected BBC Two from 19:00-21:00.