Alysha Newman will return home from Friday's Diamond League final in Belgium with a podium finish after matching her outdoor Canadian pole vault record set five days earlier. Alysha Newman (@alysha_newman94) equals her 🇨🇦 record with a clearance of 4.75m & places 🥉 in the @Diamond_League Final. Newman has come a long way since shattering Saskatoon native Kelsie Hendry's 2008 national record of 4.55. Newman had struggled finding a comfort level with "a pretty stiff pole" she had used since the world championships. American Ameer Webb was second in 20.01 on Friday and 2017 world champion Ramil Guliyev of Turkey third in 20.02.

Source: CBC News September 01, 2017 20:09 UTC