Reigning world indoor champion Juan Miguel Echevarria lost the men's long jump at the IAAF World Tour in Karlsruhe today on count back ©Getty Images

Pre-event favourite Juan Miguel Echevarria lost the men’s long jump on countback today at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe.

Cuba's 20-year-old reigning world indoor champion was the hot favourite for the event having managed a legal jump of 8.68 metres as well as a phenomenal wind assisted leap of 8.83m last season.

With the summer - when athletes aim to peak - still a long way off Echvarria could only managed 8.08m in the Messehalle.

The winner, Sweden’s Thobias Nilsson Montler’s best jump was no better, but he claimed the win on count back, as his second best jump of 8.04m was further than Echevarria’s at 7.95m.

Another Swede, Michel Torneus, claimed third with a jump of 7.91m, while the reigning European champion Miltiádis Tentóglou from Greece, could only manage 7.82m to finish fifth.

Alysha Newman set a new Canadian record to share victory in the women's pole vault ©Getty Images
Alysha Newman set a new Canadian record to share victory in the women's pole vault ©Getty Images

Canada’s Commonwealth Games champion Alysha Newman set a national record at 4.71m to find herself in a three-way tie for first place in the women’s pole vault

Reigning world and Olympic champion Katerina Stefandi from Greece and Russia’s Authorised Neutral Athlete Anzhelika Sidorova both also managed a best of 4.71m and with all of them having jumped clean to that point, the win was shared between the three of them.

On the track, in the women’s 60 metres Poland’s Ewa Swoboda came within three-hundredths of a second of her personal best to win in 7.10sec.

The 21-year-old world junior record holder finished just ahead of Dutch sprinting great Dafne Schippers, who ran 7.19, and Germany’s Rebekka Haase, finished third in 7.23.

Another noteworthy result came in the women’s 3,000m, where Great Britain’s Melissa Courtney set a personal best and world leading time of 8min 43.36sec to claim the victory.

That saw her finish ahead of two Ethiopians, the world under-20 1500m champion Alemaz Samuel and Gudaf Tsegay.

In the two heats of the men’s 400m the Czech Republic’s Pavel Maslák, a three-time world and European indoor champion, set the fastest time at 46.78.

That saw him win the second race ahead of Spain’s Oscar Husillos in 47.12 and Poland’s Karol Zalewski in 47.17.

Luguelin Santos from the Dominican Republic, winner of an Olympic silver medal at London 2012, as a teenager, finished fourth in 47.71.

The Tour is now move to Torun in Poland, where the third leg is scheduled to take place on Wednesday (February 6).