"VAN" (Sports Desk - 22.03.2026) :: A world record by Simon Ehammer in the heptathlon, plus championship records by pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and 400m sprinter Christopher Morales Williams highlighted a thrilling second day of action at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 on Saturday (21).
Ehammer’s winning tally of 6670 in the heptathlon – aided by a world heptathlon best of 7.52 in the 60m hurdles – added 25 points to a world record that had stood for 14 years.
Duplantis, meanwhile, earned his ninth senior global title in the pole vault, clearing a championship record of 6.25m in a competition where he was pushed all the way by Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis.
Morales Williams, the fastest man in history for the 400m indoors, is now a world indoor champion over the same distance as the Canadian triumphed in a championship record of 44.76.
Elsewhere on a busy Saturday, hosts Poland claimed a full set of medals as Jakub Szymanski won the men’s 60m hurdles, Natalia Bukowiecka took 400m silver behind Lurdes Gloria Manuel and Poland earned bronze in the mixed 4x400m as Belgium claimed the inaugural world indoor title for the discipline.
Zaynab Dosso continued her ascent up the women’s 60m podium at the World Indoors by claiming gold in 7.00 in a competitive final, while Josh Kerr and Nadia Battocletti claimed gold in the men’s and women’s 3000m finals.
On the infield, Leyanis Perez Hernandez retained her title in the women’s triple jump while Oleh Doroshchukh made it a Ukrainian high jump double by winning the men’s event with 2.30m.
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