Australia's Eleanor Patterson has won gold in the women's high jump at the world athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Patterson equalled the national record of 2.02 metres to top the podium, defeating Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh on countback.
Another Australian, Nicola Olyslagers, was equal fifth with a clearance of 1.96m.
It is Australia's second medal of the world championships, with Nina Kennedy collecting bronze in the women's pole vault final.
Patterson is the first Australian to win the event at a world championships or Olympics.
Her performance in Eugene bettered by two centimetres her previous personal best, which she set while winning silver at the indoor world championships in March.
Patterson and Mahuchikh were the only athletes to clear 2.02m. The Australian achieved it with her first jump, while the Ukrainian needed two attempts.
Both missed three times at 2.04m, ensuring Patterson walked away with the gold.
"It's crazy, [jumping] 2.02, I don't know what happened," Patterson said.
"So many girls went two metres it was a phenomenal performance from everyone. I'm so thrilled to clear 2.02.
Italy's Elena Vallortigara took the bronze with a clearance of 2.00m.
Olympic and multiple world champion Mariya Lasitskene did not compete because of the ban on Russian athletes in Eugene.
A world youth champion in 2013, Patterson enjoyed success at the senior level at the age of just 18 when she won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
The following year she was eighth at the world titles in Beijing but failed to qualify for the final at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Patterson, who grew up in Leongatha in rural Victoria, took some time away from the sport in the years leading up to the Tokyo Olympics.
She eventually returned and enjoyed career-best form, highlighted when she was fifth in the final at last year's Tokyo Games, with Olyslagers winning silver.
Patterson's 2022 campaign already included a first-place finish at the Stockholm Diamond League meet in addition to her silver at the world indoor titles in Belgrade.
In other events featuring Australians, Matthew Denny was sixth in the men's discus final, while Stewart McSweyn was ninth in the men's 1,500m decider.
Look back at how the action unfolded in our live blog.
Key events
- Eleanor Patterson is the high jump world champion!
- Stewart McSweyn finishes ninth in the 1,500m final
- ELEANOR PATTERSON HITS THE LEAD WITH A PB OF 2.02 METRES
- Eleanor Patterson makes it over 2 metres
- Olyslagers knocked out, but Patterson clears 1.98m on her final chance
- Matt Denny is starting in the discus final
- Both Aussies remain perfect at 1.93m in high jump final
- Jacinta Beecher runs eighth in her 200m semi-final
- What are Australia's chances in the high jump final?
- Aussie Sarah Carli reaches 400m hurdles semi-final
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Live updates
By Jon Healy
What a day
Well that went even better than we could have hoped.
What a high jump final and Patterson, not out of nowhere because she was in good nick coming into the meet, but after some of the early rounds you really did think she may have been a little off the pace set by Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
Then those two misses at 1.98m had us all worried, but the clutch third jump, then a PB of 2 metres at second asking, then tying the Aussie record of 2.02m with her first jump. Stunning performance by this veteran of the sport.
That will do it for me, but I had a great time. Not sure when we'll do this again, but at the very least I'll see you in the Commonwealth Games blog in a bit over a week's time.
By Jon Healy
Men's 400m hurdles final wraps up the night
Brazil's Alison dos Santos wins gold in 46.29 seconds, with Americans Rai Benjamin and Trevor Bassitt rounding out the podium.
By Jon Healy
Eleanor Patterson is the high jump world champion!
Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh has missed her third attempt at 2.04 metres, so Patterson is confirmed as the champ thanks to her first-time clearance at 2.02m.
Patterson also takes the bar off three times at 2.04m, but she's beaming. She's got the world title, a season best, a personal best and tied the national record of Nicola Olyslagers. What a team Australia is taking to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham at the end of the month.
Making this gold that much sweeter for 26-year-old Patterson I'm sure is the fact that she beat Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who denied her gold at the indoor championships back in March.
Mahuchikh is just 20 years old, so the world is at her feet, but today is Patterson's day.
Elena Vallortigara wins bronze for Italy.
By Jon Healy
Patterson and Mahuchikh both miss their first two shots at 2.04m
Obviously we want a clearance, but three misses from both jumpers will get the job done for Patterson here.
By Jon Healy
Stewart McSweyn finishes ninth in the 1,500m final
The Aussie finished seventh at the Tokyo Olympics last year, and he was coming back after a bout of COVID here in Oregon.
Meanwhile Great Britain's Jake Wightman is the new world champion, ahead of Norweigan Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, with Spaniard Mohamed Katir winning bronze.
Kenya's Olympic silver medallist, Timothy Cheruiyot, was back in sixth.
Jake Wightman's dad is on PA duties at the stadium and he just fell silent. Pretty cool moment.
By Jon Healy
Aussie Patterson up against Ukraine's Mahuchikh in the high jump final
Just as it was in the indoor world championship final in March, Eleanor Patterson is taking on Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh for gold.
That time Patterson could only claim silver, but this time she has the advantage of a first-time clearance at 2.02m that has her in the lead heading into 2.04m.
Let's go!
By Jon Healy
ELEANOR PATTERSON HITS THE LEAD WITH A PB OF 2.02 METRES
The Aussie is the final jumper at 2.02m but the first to get over. It's the first time she's ever jumped that high, and what a time to do it!
And Elena Vallortigara takes the bar off with her first attempt. Patterson retains the lead. What a performance after those two misses at 1.98m.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh gets over 2.02m at her second time of asking, so she's hot on Patterson's heels, but the Aussie is still out in front.
And she's guaranteed at least a silver medal as Iryna Gerashchenko and Elena Vallortigara (who claims bronze) miss 2.02m three times.
By Jon Healy
Eleanor Patterson makes it over 2 metres
She's equalled her personal best and jumped as high as anyone else, but she's still not in the medal spots because Elena Vallortigara is perfect in first place, with the Ukrainian pair of Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Iryna Gerashchenko taking up the rest of the podium.
Uzbekistan's Safina Sadullayeva is out.
By Jon Healy
Matthew Denny finishes sixth in the discus
His final throw of 66.47m was his best, but not quite enough to get into the medals.
- 1.Kristjan Čeh (Slovenia)
- 2.Mykolas Alekna (Lithuania)
- 3.Andrius Gudžius (Lithuania)
By Jon Healy
Calab Law finishes seventh in his 200m semi-final
The 18-year-old ran from lane one and watched fellow teenager Erriyon Knighton storm around half the track in 19.77 seconds.
Law came home in 20.72 second.
By Jon Healy
New leader in the high jump final
Italian Elena Vallortigara is the last jumper to attempt 2 metres, and she's over!
Everyone else clipped the bar, with Aussie Eleanor Patterson the closest of the misses.
By Jon Healy
Eleanor Patterson one of five women left in the high jump
Hoping all the Aussies do well, but especially Eleanor Patterson....she is one a a famous few putting our hometown, Leongatha, on the map...,we're all behind her. I love having blogs back....thoroughly enjoyed Olympic one, i became the unofficial poet of the games....Hoping all the Aussies get goio results heading into Commonwealth games. Go Aussies! Go 'Gatha!
- Rural Vic
Well Rural Vic, you should be pleased.
It's Patterson vs Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Iryna Gerashchenko of Ukraine, Italy's Elena Vallortigara and Safina Sadullayeva in the high jump final.
The bar is moving up to her personal best mark of 2.00 metres, but she cleared that in March, so she has form.
By Jon Healy
Olyslagers knocked out, but Patterson clears 1.98m on her final chance
Australian Olympic silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers and indoor world championship silver medallist Eleanor Patterson have knocked the bar off for the first time today, taking it down with their first and second attempts at 1.98m.
Olyslagers missed her third too, so she can't medal. But Patterson goes over!
She's one of five women left and she needs to be just about perfect from here.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh went over in a canter, and so did fellow Ukrainian Iryna Gerashchenko. Italy's Elena Vallortigara cleared it too, and she's tied in first place with Mahuchikh, with Gerashchenko third and Patterson fourth. Uzbekistan's Safina Sadullayeva is also there, but has only cleared 1.96m so far and passed at 1.98m, so she's tied for fifth with Olyslagers.
By Jon Healy
Matt Denny is starting in the discus final
The Aussie finished fourth at the Tokyo Olmpics, with his 65.13m just 32 centimetres short of a medal.
What can he do today?
He starts with a throw of 61.55m. Denny has thrown a season- and career-best of 67.07m, so hopefully he's just building into this final.
By Jon Healy
Olyslagers and Patterson keeping pace at 1.96m in high jump
Yaroslava Mahuchikh is leading the way jumping first, but Aussie Nicola Olyslagers isn't overawed by the impressive Ukrainian, soaring over right after her. And Patterson makes it over too.
She was rocking long pants early, but she's whipped them off now that things are getting serious.
The bar is starting to fall a bit more regularly, but not once for the Aussies yet.
By Jon Healy
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce burns 200m semi-final field
The 100m champ shot out of the gates and never looked like being caught.
She comes home in 21.82, with US college champ Abby Steiner second in 22.15.
Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah is through as the fastest non-automatic qualifier, with Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji rounding out the field.
By Jon Healy
Olympic 200m champion will have to wait to see if she's reached the final
Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah was in an absolute match race with defending British world champ Dina Asher-Smith, but American Tamara Clark two lanes over snuck up and got the win.
- 1.Clark: 21.95 (Q)
- 2.Asher-Smith: 21.96 (Q)
- 3.Thompson-Herah: 21.97 (?)
The Jamaican's time is a season's best and the fastest non-automatic qualifier thus far, but there's plenty of pace left in the third semi-final. So let's just wait and see.
By Jon Healy
Free-to-air option
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By Jon Healy
Both Aussies remain perfect at 1.93m in high jump final
After watching 20-year-old Yaroslava Mahuchikh cruise over, the first of the Aussies let's out her patented shout at the top of her run-up, and clears it too.
And over goes Eleanor Patterson. Perhaps not as convincingly, but a first-time clearance is a first-time clearance, and only seven of the 12-woman field have gone through cleanly.
By Jon Healy
Jacinta Beecher runs eighth in her 200m semi-final
It's a star-studded field, and the Aussie had Swiss star Mujinga Kambundji and Jamaican Shericka Jackson, who completely blew her Olympic tilt by pulling up early in the heats, in her race.
Jackson looks ready to make amends here with a rapid 21.67 to win ahead of Aminatou Seyni. Kambundji ran a national record of 22.05 seconds for third, so will have to wait to see if that time is fast enough to qualify for the final.
Beecher was last in that heat in 23.14.
