At the Swiss Indoor Championships in St.Gallen, the gold medals in the 60 m went to Léonie Pointet and Timothé Mumenthaler.
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Pointet won in a personal best time of 7.12 seconds ahead of Ajla Del Ponte. The Ticino native ran the third-best time of her career in 7.15. These two athletes also secured the two Swiss starting places at the World Indoor Championships in three weeks' time in Torun, Poland. For Del Ponte, it will be a return to the place where she became European indoor champion in 2021 before being repeatedly set back by health setbacks over several years.
In the men's final, Mumenthaler also won in a personal best time of 6.62 seconds, coming within four hundredths of Pascal Mancini's Swiss indoor record. Silver was secured by 400 m specialist Ricky Petrucciani in 6.66.
Simon Ehammer achieved a Swiss season's best in the long jump with 8.12 m and secured his second medal of the day after silver in the pole vault (5.20 m). On Sunday, the man from Appenzell will also be chasing medals in the 60 m hurdles. Ehammer will then compete in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships; he became world indoor champion in this discipline in Glasgow in 2024.
Annik Kälin won the long jump with 6.69 m, coming within 2 cm of her national season's best. She will be aiming for the limit for the World Indoor Championships (6.75 m) in Berlin next Friday.
