Clear at 1.80 after three failures at 1.83, Jessica Ennis of Great Britain moved to the head of the standings after 2 events, her 978 points from this event giving her a two event total of 2018 points.
In second position after also clearing 1.80, comes Germany’s Kathrin Geissler with 1961 points and she is followed by the third girl to clear 1.80 in the high jump competition, Lithuania’s Viktorija Zemaityte with a total of 1902 points.
Close behind the three leaders at this stage are Gayle Hunter of USA (1890), Cecilia Ricali, Italy (1856) and Hungary’s Gyorgyi Farkas (1848).
