\n Published\u00a0Mar 7, 2026 09:29 am\n <\/p>\n
EJ Obiena flashed his winning form and captured the gold medal with a season-best performance at the ISTAF Indoor Berlin in Germany on Friday, March 6 (early Saturday, March 7, Philippine time).<\/p>\n
The two-time Olympian and Asian record-holder cleared the bar at 5.78 meters on his first attempt at the Uber Arena to rule the eight-player field that included fellow Olympians.<\/p>\n
Norway\u2019s Simen Guttormsen registered the same 5.78m height, but settled for the silver medal after tiebreaks were applied.<\/p>\n
Menno Vloon of the Netherlands bagged the bronze medal with 5.70m.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrick by brick, we build. Season\u2019s best of 5.78m and a (gold medal) here\u2026 Thanks for having me, Berlin,\u201d Obiena wrote on social media moments after his victory.<\/p>\n
It was Obiena\u2019s first victory since reigning supreme in the Asian Indoor Championships in Tianjin, China last month.<\/p>\n
Ranked No. 12 in the world, Obiena skipped the opening heights of 5.30m and 5.40m before entering at 5.60m, which he cleared on his second attempt. \u00a0He then passed on 5.70m and moved straight to 5.78m.<\/p>\n
At 5.78m, he brushed the bar on the way down, but it stayed in place.<\/p>\n
Obiena and Guttormsen both attempted 5.83m but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Other finishers were Germany\u2019s Bo Kanda Lita Baehre (5.70m), Czech Republic\u2019s David Holy (5.60m), Germany\u2019s Torben Blech (5.60m), Latvia\u2019s District Valters (5.60m) and France\u2019s Valentin Lavillenie (5.45m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published\u00a0Mar 7, 2026 09:29 am EJ Obiena flashed his winning form and captured the gold medal with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,20511,190,19182,216,20510,20513,20512,4512],"class_list":{"0":"post-35113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-captures","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-gold","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-obiena","14":"tag-performance","15":"tag-season-best","16":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116191404022056991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}