Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye drops world-leading and meeting record mark in 2025 season's debut

Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye continued from where she left off in Paris with a massive world-leading and meeting record mark in her 2025 season's debut in Dortmund.

The German 25-year-old launched a brilliant distance of 18.98m, which smashed the meeting record to win the women's Shot Put event at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting.

She also threw above 18m (18.80m and 18.76m) in the fourth and fifth rounds as German teammate Alina Kenzel was second with a final round effort of 18.16m, while Jorinde van Klinken of the Netherlands settled for third with 17.46m.

Ogunleye will be looking forward to winning her first world indoor title this March, which will be an upgrade from her silver medal won last year before her Paris exploits, where she became the first German to win an Olympic Shot Put title since Astrid Kumbernus at Atlanta 1996.

Meanwhile, former Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo was victorious in the long jump event, setting a new world lead of 6.79m.

Mikaelle Assani, also German, was second with 6.67m, and Cyprus jump sensation Filippa Fotopoulou was third, equalling her personal best of 6.53m.