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Ostrava Golden Spike did not disappoint again. A great 12,000 spectators (plus another 3,000 guests and journalists) turned up and Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis once again confirmed that he is the king of his craft. He was the only one to jump 582 cm in the wind and sometimes in the rain, and then 6 meters on the third attempt. When asked what to do next, he answered without hesitation that he was going for the world record. The first two attempts were tests and during the third he already showed why he is so special. Despite the adverse weather conditions, he realistically attacked 625 cm. Finally, he promised to come in a year. We will see what the value of the world record will be at that time.

The major start of the 59th Ostrava Golden Spike meeting Armand “Mondo” Duplantis will perform here for the third time. After his new world record and two competitions in China, he would love to take a shot at 6.25 on Tuesday evening.

Jakub Vadlejch is focusing everything on Paris, but he didn't want to miss Rome. The Golden Spike is a milestone on the way to the peak competitions in the summer. For Vadlejch, it will be his 14th start at the Golden Spike. In contrast, for the Japanese world champion Haruka Kitaguchi, it will be her fourth performance in front of the Ostrava audience. Jan Železný came with a wish for all the javelin throwers.

The 59th Ostrava Golden Spike will have to Olympic champions from Tokyo 2021 on the start on Tuesday 28 May. Italian 100m gold medallist Marcel Jacobs will have his premiere on Ostrava City stadium. For experienced Canadian 200m gold medallist Andre De Grasse it will be his fourth time here. And, as a bonus, he plans to double at 100 and 200m.

The world record holder in pole vault and the biggest star of this year's Golden Spike Ostrava, Armand Duplantis, has arrived in Ostrava. On Sunday, May 26th, he landed at Mošnov Airport in "Usain Bolt style". He is excited for the competition and well-prepared.

Bahamian sprinter Steven Gardiner was the first of the athletic stars to meet with journalists before the start of the Ostrava Golden Spike in 2024. The 400m Olympic champion from Tokyo 2021 revealed at a media briefing on Sunday 25 May in Clarion Hotel in Ostrava why he is so excited about the meeting, which is part of the Golden Continental Tour.

The javelin throw at Ostrava Golden Spike promises a great experience. The organizers did note a message from the Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra. Due to an injury that he sustained in training two weeks ago (adductor muscle) he will not be able to throw in Ostrava, but he will arrive at the event as a guest.

"I was really looking forward to it, it was supposed to be my only start before the EC in Rome. Now nothing will come out of it. I greet the great fans in Ostrava and I believe that I will please them next year," said Tamberi. He believes that he will at least make it to the EC in Rome on home soil. Heigh jump competition with home Jan Štefela, the American McEwen and the legendary Ukrainian Bondarenko will still be worth it.

In the year of celebrating the centenary of the founding of Vítkovice athletics, the top athletics event in the Czech Republic promises a unique chance to see the best athletes in full force before the Paris Olympics  and also the European Championships in Rome. Less than two weeks before the meeting, more foreign stars were announced.

Ostrava, March 7, 2024 – While celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Ostrava athletics, the top athletic event in the Czech Republic promises a unique opportunity to see the very best at full strenght ahead of the Paris Olympic Games and the European Championships in Rome. Just about three months before the meeting, organizers unveil three main international stars of the meeting.

Ostrava, 15/12/2024 - In the year of celebrating the centenary of athletcs in Ostrava, the top athletics event in the Czech Republic Ostrava Golden Spike promises a unique chance to see the best ones in full force before the Paris Olympics. The return of 100 m of women is particularly exciting. The top Czech and world athletes will demonstrate speed, determination and strength on Tuesday 28 May 2024. It will also be a test before the European Championship in Rome for them. Classic events will be enriched by exceptional and innovative events on the track. The entire afternoon will be dedicated to a unique experience with the queen of sports for spectators of all ages with a rich accompanying programmme in the fan zone and a varied and high-quality catering service supporting local companies and local food sources.

Ostrava, 13. 11. 2023 – Ostava Golden Spike is traditionally a guarantee of the best that can be seen in athletics in the Czech Republic. The 63 rd edition, prepared for May 28th as World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meeting, will delight viewers with a world-class athletic show. The date is promising a culminating form of athletes before the June European Championship, and for qualification for the Olympic Games in Paris. 

Mondo Duplantis set a world pole vault lead of 6.12m in front of an expectant crowd at the Golden Spike in Ostrava on Tuesday (27). Jakub Vadlejch pleased the home crowd with the victory in the men´s javelin throw. Six meeting records improved.

This year, the men's javelin is expecting a duel between our biggest athletic star of the moment, Jakub Vadlejch, and two-time world champion Anderson Peters from Grenada. Peters dominated last year, and Vadlejch would certainly like to return the defeat to him in his thirteenth start at Golden Spike. This season, Jan Železný's athlete is in top form. The shot putter Tomáš Staněk will be starting for the eighth time.

The shot put world record holder Ryan Crouser of the USA arrived to Ostrava after the long 23 hours journey. He talked about the new technique and new challenges he expect this season. Is it possible to break the 24m barrier one day? The long distance runner Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia looks forward to run 1500m in Ostrava.

Main star of the 62nd Ostrava Golden Spike meeting cannot imagine his life without pole vault. Armand Duplantis revealed his attitude to this event, his motivation and also a 100m challenge with Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

The 62nd edition of Ostrava Golden Spike meeting welcomed the main stars at the official press conference before the start of the meeting on Monday 26 June. The meeting manager Alfons Juck together with the meeting director Jan Železný introduced the hurdlers Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Tobi Amusan at the beginning of the session. Both athletes believe in fast times and the meeting record 12.55 tomorrow.

The guest of Sunday's (25) briefing of the 62nd edition of Golden Spike Ostrava was the Slovenian discus thrower, world champion and the world leader Kristjan Čeh, together with the Croatian shot putter Filip Mihaljevič. A few days ago, Čeh became the winner of the European Games in Poland and is returning to Ostrava for the second time.

Ostrava, 22/06/2023 – There are only five days left until the 2023 Athletic Experience in the Czech Republic. On Tuesday 27 June, the elite of world athletics will come to Ostrava. The best athletes on the planet will fight for points and limits for the upcoming world championships. The main star of the 62nd Ostrava Golden Spike will be the absolute number one in contemporary world athletics. It is the flying pole vaulter Armand Mondo Duplantis. This year he already cleared 611 and will be thinking of similar heights in Ostrava. Great shape also accompanies the shot put world record holder Ryan Crouser, the 3000m steeplechase world record holder in Lamecha Girma from Ethiopia, who will run the Zátopek Memorial on 1500m, and the discus world champion Kristjan Čeh of Slovenia, who last week achieved the best performance in the last 15 years of 71.86. But that's not all:

The main star of the 62nd Ostrava Golden Spike will be the absolute number one in contemporary athletics world. The flying pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis. In his exclusive calendar of meetings, he found a place for Tuesday 27 June at the City Stadium in Ostrava. Golden Spike thus continues the tradition of always offering the best names in the world athletics scene to its viewers. But more great names have been added to the star-studded list for Tuesday 27 June.

The main star of the 62nd Golden Spike Ostrava will be the main attraction of current world of athletics. Flying jumper Armand Mondo Duplantis. He has found a place in his busy calendar of meetings for Tuesday 27 June at the Municipal Stadium in Ostrava. The meet thus continues the trend of offering the absolute best names in the sport. The 23-year-old Athlete of the Year 2020 and 2022 pushed the limits of human possibilities to 621 outdoors and 620 indoors. He is the reigning Olympic champion, world champion, European champion. Furthermore, the indoor world champion and European champion. He has 41 starts of 6 meters performance or more. He started the 2023 indoor season with a great jump of 610 and three attempts of 622. He has never started so high in any other year. He has made himself heard that he wants to break records in every start. That also means Ostrava could realistically see the first six-meter performance of its history. Duplantis had his debut in Ostrava in 2021 when he won with 590 cm. Kendricks' meet record of 593 cm should be broken this time.

When it comes to season openers it doesn’t get much better than breaking a world best and that’s exactly what Femke Bol did on her return to the Ostrava Golden Spike, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on Tuesday (31).

The Puerto Rican hurdler surprised the world when topped the Tokyo Olympic Games podium and wants to rewrite the meeting record (12.55) in Ostrava. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn will test the Ostrava track for the first time in her career. 25-year-old two-time NCCA champion tops the world season list from April 16, while she clocked 12.39 in Gainesville, USA.

Javelin throw is always one of the main attractions at the meeting directed by the world record holder Jan Železný. After the amazing silver medal in Tokyo, Czech Jakub Vadlejch feels potential to attack the podium on every major championship, but in Ostrava he has to pass through strong opposition of the reigning world champion Anderson Peters.  24-year-old thrower from Grenada won first Diamond League event of the year in Doha with fantastic personal best, National record and world lead mark of 93.07m.

Ostrava is not missing on the farewell tour of one of the major athletic stars nowadays. American sprinter Allyson Felix will say goodbye in her last start in Ostrava at her favourite 200m. Felix revealed her next plans, her busy schedule and expectations from this season.