Perkovic halts German treble with historic fifth discus title
(WorldNews Africa)

A crowd of 60,500 spectators - the largest yet at the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships - inspired German athletes to gold in two of the three field events, but the possibility of a home hat-trick was terminated by a fifth-round throw of 67.72m. That meant Croatia`s already multiple world and Olympic discus champion Sandra Perkovic became the first athlete to win five European titles in the same event. Until that late, decisive flourish it looked as if Nadine Muller`s season`s best of 63.00m might be enough to earn a third German victory on the night following those of Mateusz Przybylko, who won the men`s high jump with an equal personal best clearance of 2.35m, and Malaika...