The competitors was delayed by round 40 minutes due to a problem with the know-how that lifts the bar.
As soon as it resumed, Caudery went over 4.70m – however she couldn’t keep away from catching the bar on her approach again down in her makes an attempt at 4.75m, regardless of showing to have ample peak.
“I am actually dissatisfied – I needed to come back out right here after final 12 months and do one thing and I do know that I am in form to do one thing,” Caudery advised BBC Sport.
“However that competitors was actually onerous. There have been quite a lot of points and we have been ready for practically an hour at one level.
“I am not placing an excessive amount of blame on myself. I am not saying I could not have cleared that subsequent bar as a result of I feel I had three good makes an attempt.
“I really feel a bit flat, to be trustworthy, after that.”
Caudery did not qualify for the Olympic closing final summer season, regardless of getting into Paris 2024 as one of many favourites after a breakthrough season through which she broke Holly Bradshaw’s nationwide file with a vault over 4.92m.
Keen to make use of that disappointment to gas a pursuit of extra main titles, Caudery made a promising begin to 2025 by clearing 4.85m in February.
She took the choice to overlook the European indoors two weeks in the past to focus absolutely on her title defence right here whereas she managed a minor calf harm, however will now repair her consideration on a gold medal bid on the World Championships in Tokyo in September.