Katie Nageotte finishes second in pole vault at Zürich Wednesday...

While the main portion of the meet isn’t scheduled until Thursday, the Zürich Weltklasse meet got underway Wednesday night with the women’s pole vault contested inside the Zürich Main Train Station.

Former Pullman resident Katie Nageotte (left/photo by Mike Scott) finished second in an exciting competition behind Russia’s Anzhelika Sidorova.

Nageotte, who started the day with a second attempt make at 15-1.75 (4.62m), skipped the next height of 15-5.75 (4.72m), then cleared the next height of 15-9.75 (4.82m).

After Sidorova cleared the eventual winning height of 15-11.75 (4.87m) on her first attempt, Nageotte passed to 16-1.75 (4.92m), knowing that a first attempt make at 15-9.75 wouldn’t overtake Sidorova for the lead.

Both Sidorova and Nageotte missed all three attempts at 16-1.75, thus giving Sidorova the win at 15-11.75.

Courtesy of her Instagram account, here is video of her from the meet:

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4.82 (15’9) for 2nd in the train station @weltklassezurich! (Second video opening bar 4.62). Got on the biggest pole of my life for good attempts at a PR of 4.92! Big fan of this place🤗. Can’t wait to watch the men battle it out tomorrow in the stadium. #nike #zurich #polevault #trackandfield #trainstation

A post shared by Katie Nageotte (@ktnago13) on Aug 28, 2019 at 1:53pm PDT

While the Zürich Weltklasse meet is the 13th stop on the IAAF Diamond League tour, the women’s pole vault was not a Diamond League scoring event. Nageotte, who is currently fifth in the Diamond League standings in that event, will jump in the finals of the pole vault at next week’s Van Damme Memorial in Brussels to close out the Diamond League tour.

No athletes with Washington ties are entered in the Zürich Weltklasse meet.

Results of the Zürich Weltklasse are available here.

NCAA DIVISION II PRE-SEASON CROSS COUNTRY POLL RELEASED...

The Seattle Pacific women's team and both Western Washington cross country teams were recognized Wednesday by the USTFCCCA, as the coaches' organization released the NCAA Division II national cross country pre-season poll.

Seattle Pacific is the highest ranked Washington school, with the Falcons ranked number 9 in the women’s poll.

Western Washington is ranked number 17 in the women’s poll, and is also ranked number 24 in the men’s poll.

The women’s pre-season national top five are in order: Adams State, Grand Valley State, Western Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, and U-Mary.

Alaska Anchorage at number 7, and Simon Fraser at number 8 are the two other GNAC schools ranked in the Division II women’s top 25.

The men’s national top 5 teams are in order: Grand Valley State, Western Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Chico State, and Adams State.

Simon Fraser is the highest ranked men’s team from the GNAC at number 13, followed by Alaska Anchorage at number 17.

Western Washington opens its 2019 season on September 14th at Central Washington's Invitational in Ellensburg, while Seattle Pacific opens a week later at the PLU Invitational in Tacoma.

The USTFCCCA release is available here.

NOTE:  The IAAF Diamond League and the USTFCCCA contributed to this report.