2023 Diamond League Final: Again, Ivana Vuleta denies Ese Brume of glory!
Reigning World indoor and outdoor champion, Ivana Vuleta has, for the second time, denied Ese Brume of winning a global event after her last round jump equalled the Nigerian’s personal season’s best jump of 6.85m.
The Serbian who edged Brume to the world indoor gold in March 2022 on home soil in Belgrade was trailing the Nigerian after three rounds of jump but leapt 6.85m in her final jump to win her first Diamond League title on countback having jumped 6.77m in the fifth round while the Nigerian’s second best jump on the nigt was her 6.69m leap also in the fifth round.
Brume, who watched Tobi Amusan made history with a hat-trick of Diamond League wins in the 100m hurdles could not respond as she failed to make her sixth and final jump due to an injury she copped in the course of the competition.
The 27 year old African record holder was hoping to become the second Nigerian after Amusan and the first field eventer to win a Diamond League title after her bid of becoming the most decorated Nigerian in World Championships history was truncated by Romania’s Alina Rotaru-Kottmann who jumped 6.88m in her final round to push Brume down from third to fourth.
