BERLIN, Sept 3: Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva will be jumping for a one million dollar jackpot in the season’s final Golden League meet in Berlin on Sunday. The triple jumper missed out on gold at the world championships in Helsinki because of an injury but can complete a Golden League clean sweep in the Olympic Stadium after victories in all five previous meetings.

If she manages it she would become only the second athlete, after Maria Mutola in the 800m in 2003, to scoop the entire pot. To claim the money, Lebedeva, a 29-year-old mother from Volgograd who won world championships in 2001 and 2003, will have to beat all three medallists from Helsinki.

World champion Trecia Smith of Jamaica, silver medallist Yargelis Savigne of Cuba and Russian team-mate Anna Pyatykh, who won bronze, will all be eager to prove the worth of their new medals.—Reuters