Although this has been her third competition in the past five days, she scored the best result of the season with a throw of 68.96 metres. She also broke the meeting's 23-year-old record set by Ilke Wyludde of Germany in 1990 (68.46m).
This season Perkovic won all five Diamond League competitions (Doha, Rome, New York, Birmingham and Lausanne). She tops the rankings with 20 points, 16 more than Gia Lewis-Smallwood of the US, Yarelis Barrios of Cuba and Zinaida Sendruite of Lithuania, each of whom has four points.