Russian triple jumper Tatyana Lebedeva won the Golden League's $1 million jackpot with a victory in Berlin on Sunday that left her as the only unbeaten competitor after the season's six meetings in Europe.
The 29-year-old mother from Volgograd won $1 million with a leap of 14.85 metres, beating Yamile Aldama of Sudan into second place.
A twice world champion, Lebedeva skipped last month's world championships in Helsinki to focus on the Golden League and the sport's richest prize.
"I've always dreamed of something like this," Lebedeva told Reuters. "And now my dreams are finally coming true here."
The $1 million in gold bars is awarded to competitors who win their disciplines in all six Golden League meetings in a single season.
Lebedeva became the second athlete, after Mozambique's 800 metres runner Maria Mutola in 2003, to win the entire pot.
The Russian was a model of consistency at all six meets - winning in Paris, Rome, Oslo, Zurich, Brussels and Berlin. Her shortest jump before Sunday was 14.94 metres in Brussels and her best was 15.11 in Paris.
Wearing the bib number "1,000,000" in Berlin rather than the "1" she wore previously, Lebedeva moved into the lead with her second jump of 14.85, dislodging Yargelis Savigne of Cuba who had jumped 14.57.
