Qatar’s reigning world indoor champion Mutaz Essa Barshim opened his 2016 season with a world-leading 2.34m clearance in Malmo, Sweden, on Sunday before attempting 2.38m.

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Barshim has said he is planning to compete sparingly in the build-up to the Olympic Games but that he is intending to compete at the Asian Indoor Championships held on home soil in Doha next month on the road to the IAAF World Indoor Championships where he will defend the title he won in Poland two years ago.

RESULTS:

1 Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) -  2.34 WL SB
2 Hamdi Mahamat Alamine Saleh (QAT) - 2.17 PB
3 Emil Svensson (SWE) - 2.14 SB
4 Janick Klausen (DEN) - 2.14 SB
5 Philip Frifelt Lundqvist (SWE) - 2.08 SB
6 Muamer Aissa Barshim (QAT) - 2.08 SB
7 Fredrick Ekholm (SWE) - 2.05 SB