Canada's Sarah Mitton repeats as world indoor shot put champion

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· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 11:15 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Canada's Sarah Mitton won her 2nd consecutive women's indoor changeable enactment title — throwing implicit 20 metres 3 times at the contention connected Friday successful Nanjing, China

Her championship-clinching propulsion came on her past attempt, which travelled 20.48m.

That besides represents Mitton's third-best throw of her career, behind two 20.68m throws achieved both indoors and outdoors.

World person Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands (20.07m) won the metallic medal and two-time satellite champion Chase Jackson (20.06m) bagged bronze. Friday's last marked the archetypal clip since 1991 that each 3 medallists successful the lawsuit recorded throws that surpassed 20 metres.

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After a disappointing 12th-place show successful Paris, Mitton, of Brooklyn, N.S., had been making a connection this indoor season. She came into Friday's final ranked 2nd successful the satellite and was connected medal-winning streak successful the World Athletics Indoor Tour crossed Europe.

"The breathtaking happening astir women's changeable is that we're having a infinitesimal close now," Mitton said anterior to the event. "[There's been] some truly large throws truthful aboriginal successful the season, truthful I'd accidental it's an wholly antithetic contention than past twelvemonth truthful I'm going to person to beryllium astatine my champion to bash that."

Mitton, the Canadian record-holder, said she besides saw Nanjing arsenic a "precursor" for the outdoor play and satellite championships this fall. 

However, "world indoors close present is astir leaving a spot of a bequest behind," penning her sanction permanently into the books arsenic a champion.