With a season best of 4.52 meters and a modest 4.33 in Saturday's pole vault competition in Täby, Angelica Bengtsson gropes for form.

The 27-year-old has tested with different approaches and switched between soft and dumb poles in search of the right feeling in her pole vault - the one that made her set a new Swedish outdoor record of 4.80 at the World Championships in Doha last year.

But in front of desolate stands, it has been difficult to find the right spark.

TT: Maybe it's easier to light up at the Diamond League than at Tibblevallen?

- That's probably it. I am really a jumper who lives for the audience and it has probably been more difficult than I have wanted to admit from the beginning, says Bengtsson.

TT: What does the audience do to you when you jump?

-A lot. Then the atmosphere makes you set to one hundred all the time. But now when you walk past a person, you think: "Oh, now the tension went a little higher".

One who, on the other hand, has delivered despite the crowd stop is Michaela Meijer who is second in the world with her season best of 4.72.

- It is clear that you want an audience. That's half the thing. But I'm glad we can compete and get out and drive at all. Then I think we are a good bunch, we cheer on each other and manage to create an atmosphere here together anyway. I'm just happy that we can be out and compete, says Meijer.

On a spectator site Tibblevallen, she won at 4.63 after three failed attempts at 4.76 - which had meant a new personal record and world year best.

The Örgryte jumper had to be world number one for a week before the Slovenian Tina Sutej jumped 4.75 in Ljubljana two weeks ago.

CLIP: Meijer superior - defeated Angelica Bengtsson (July 18, 2020)

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