Nageotte sets outdoor personal best in winning pole vault at Lausanne Diamond League meet...

In Lausanne, Switzerland, Katie Nageotte (left/photo by Paul Merca) won Thursday’s pole vault at the Athletissima Lausanne meeting on the streets of Lausanne as a prelude to Friday’s main portion of the meet.

Nageotte, who recently moved along with members of her Pullman-based training group and former vertical jumps coach Brad Walker to the Atlanta area, scored an outdoor personal best of 15-9.75 (4.82m) to take the victory.

She started the day with first attempt makes at 15-0 (4.57m) and 15-3.75 (4.67m), before needing a second attempt to navigate 15-5.75 (4.72m).

She along with Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw passed 15-7.75 (4.77m), a height that Russia’s Anzhelika Sidorova and Sweden’s Michaela Meijer could not navigate.

Nageotte cleared the eventual winning height on her second attempt, while Bradshaw missed all three.  Nageotte had three unsuccessful attempts at 16-0.75 (4.90m).

In Friday’s main portion of the Athletissima, the eighth stop on the IAAF Diamond League tour, former Renton resident Devon Allen was seventh in the men’s 110 hurdles, running 13.35, as Spain’s Orlando Ortega, who won Sunday’s race at the Nike Prefontaine Classic at Stanford, got his second straight Diamond League win in 13.05.

Vancouver native and three time Olympian Kara Winger was ninth in the javelin, throwing 186-11 (56.99m), as Germany’s Christin Hussong won in a season best 218-5 (66.59m).

The IAAF Diamond League tour moves on to next Friday’s Herculis Meeting in Monaco.

Complete results of the Athletissima Meeting are available here.

RAINSBERGER PART OF USATF SQUAD AT NACAC U-23 CHAMPS IN MEXICO…

Katie Rainsberger of the University of Washington will run the 1500 meters as part of Team USATF at this weekend’s NACAC Under-23 championships in Queretaro, Mexico.

Rainsberger’s event will be contested on Sunday, the meet’s final day.

The start lists, time schedule and results page for both the NACAC U-18 and U-23 Championships are available here.

The meet is offering live streaming of the competition via its YouTube channel, which is available here (in Spanish). Media partner Flotrack is offering the meet in English ($).

NOTE:  The IAAF Diamond League, NACAC Athletics, and the Mexican Athletics Federation contributed to this report.