On the first day of speed competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Aleksandra Miroslaw breaks the world record. The new record is 6.06 seconds.
The statisticians had to be faster than the athletes on the 15-meter-high speed climbing wall in order to record the number of personal bests, continental, Olympic and world records from the first speed session here in Paris.
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The facts: Nine personal bests, four continental records, four Olympic records broken and two world records broken. The first to break the Olympic record was China's Zhou Yafei with 6.54.
Then world champion Desak Dewi from Indonesia managed 6.52. Dewi was followed by American Emma Hunt with a personal best of 6.36 seconds and a new Pan-American record. All Olympic records.
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But then Miroslaw followed up with a world, European and Olympic record of 6,21. But that was not all. In her next run she broke all records and achieved a new world best time of 6,06 seconds.
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