Diamond League win for Brandon Starc

Brandon Starc is well on the way to being back to his best as he cleared 2.30m and won the men’s high jump at the Birmingham Diamond League.

The Birmingham Diamond League (Muller Grand Prix Birmingham) is the second last Diamond League event of the 14 event season, before the Diamond League finals in Zurich (29 Aug) and Brussels (6 Sep).

NSW Institute of Sport athlete Brandon Starc, who won this event in 2018, only had one blemish on his card before hitting 2.30m.

“I’m pretty happy. Before this the season’s best was 2.25m and I won this last year with 2.23m. I was ready to come back and jump high again,” Starc said.

“That performance has pushed my confidence way up,” he added.

In other results, fellow NSWIS athlete Nick Hough placed sixth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 13.66 seconds.