In the new format, all five jumps jump and then the top three advance to the sixth round. The one who jumps along in his sixth jump then wins the competition, regardless of who has jumped the longest before that.

If someone sets some form of record in rounds 1-5, they can count their record result, but do not have to win the competition.

- The competition form rewards those who have the ability to perform when it really matters and we think it will be more exciting to follow the long jump when we know in advance that it is the last three jumps that will decide the competition, says the CEO of Diamond League Petr Stastny in a press release.

Thobias Montler does not believe in any giant jumps as the competition will be decided in the sixth round.

- You get the winner on the last jump and I do not like that because then you do not dare to bet. If you make a trampling, you are fucked.

How do you think before the competition?

- I will need to talk to my coach Yannick Tregaro about how we should set it up. But it will probably still be that you do something as usual. You have to have a little safety margin on the last jump and maybe back half a foot extra. Then you go for it, says Montler.

The Swede, who on Sunday took the Swedish Championship gold with a jump that measured 8.15 meters, still understands that they are testing something new.

- If the audience thinks it's more fun, it's something you can watch, but I do not know how they look at it. I buy that you want to test new techniques and such before certain galas, but for championships I am not quite there, he says.

At the Diamond League gala in Stockholm, Montler meets, among others, Kristian Pulli, who set a Finnish record of 8.27 earlier this year, and the meritorious South African Ruswahl Samaai. The Swede goes for victory.

- Absolutely, that's what you are in favor of. Then I just got to see the resistance and that's good. But it's just fun that there is good resistance. It makes you more tagged, he says.

CLIP: Montler's SM record - 8.15 meters

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Thobias Montler. Photo: Bildbyrån