Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim celebrates after clearing 2m43 to win the Men’s High Jump during the Memorial Van Damme athletics Diamond League meeting at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels yesterday. Barshim pipped Ukraine’s reigning world champion Bohdan Bondarenko, with both going for what would have been a world record 2.46m in front of a raucous capacity 46,000-strong crowd on their feet. “Of course it’s possible to beat the record because it was set by a human. I just don’t know when!” said the 23-year-old Barshim of Cuban Javier Sotomayor’s world record of 2.45m which dates back to 1993.
September 06, 2014 | 01:44 AM