In Mondeville in Calvados, Romain Mesnil’s pole vault record was beaten by American Jacob Wooten.
Three records from the Mondeville meeting, in Calvados, fell on Wednesday evening, including that of the pole vault which had held since 2003.
American Jacob Wooten cleared a bar at 5m82, improving his best result by a centimeter and erasing the old record of Romain Mesnil, twenty years old (5m80). His compatriot Alaysha Johnson set a reference time of 7 sec 96 (five tenths better) for the Normandy meeting in the 60 meter hurdles.
In the triple jump, Cuban Leyanis Hernandez broke the previous meeting record of 24 centimeters with a leap to 14 meters and 48 centimeters.
In the 60m, the Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala broke his personal best by two hundredths in 6 sec 55, ahead of the Ivorian Arthur Cissé and the Briton Charles Dobson.