In-form Gillick fourth in Zurich

ON a night that saw Yelena Isinbayeva bounce back from the disaster of the world championships to set a new world record in the pole vault, Ireland’s David Gillick improved on his Berlin placing to finish fourth in the men’s 400m and Derval O’Rourke finished seventh in the 100m hurdles at the Golden League meeting in Zurich.

Despite the awesome presence of double world record holder, Usain Bolt, who won the 100m in 9.81 secs, and the other double world champion, Kenenisa Bekele, who ran the fastest 5,000m in the world this year at 12:52:32, to stay in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot, the night belonged to Isinbayeva.

The Russian, who no-heighted in the final at world championships a week earlier, staged one of the most dramatic comebacks in athletics history to set a new world record with a first time clearance at 5.06m – breaking the record which she set at 5.05m at the Olympics in Beijing last year.