Idowu has to settle for silver

Phillips Idowu
12 April 2012

Phillips Idowu had to settle for silver in the triple jump of the World Athletics Championships in Daegu despite twice recording a season's best effort.

Moments after Mo Farah took gold in the men's 5,000metres, it looked like Britain would claim another gold when, Idowu jumped a season's best 17.70m to restore a healthy lead.

However, American Christian Taylor then produced a stunning leap of 17.96m to take the lead and relegate Idowu to the silver medal position.

Idowu responded with an improvement to 17.77m, but then only had two rounds remaining to smash his personal best by more than 15cm to retain his title.

He was unable to produce anything better in the last two rounds and had to settle for silver, his 17.77m the best jump in world championship history not to win gold.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in