The Olympic champion is the world record holder since February 8, 2020, when he surpassed the 6.17-meter bar in Torun (Poland)
The Swede Armand Duplantis improved his world record of pole vault by one centimeter, raising it to 6,22 metrosthis Saturday at the All Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand (France).
The Olympic champion in 2021 and world champion in 2022, whose previous mark of 6.21 m had been achieved in July 2022, is the world record holder since February 8, 2020, when he surpassed the 6.17-meter bar in Torun ( Poland). He then broke the record of the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie (6.16 m), precisely the organizer of the Clermont-Ferrand meeting, and began his absolute hegemony in this event ever since.
At 23, Duplantis has already improved the record six times worldwide, raising it one centimeter each time. In the year 2022 he was able to do it three times.
«It’s incredible, I don’t know what to say (…) Breaking this world record in front of Renaud (Lavillenie) is incredible. He would never have jumped so high if Renaud had not been there », he declared.
‘Mondo’ Duplantis collects all the great pole vault titles: in addition to the gold at the Tokyo Olympicsis world champion in indoor and outdoor track, as well as European champion also indoors and outdoors.
The All Star Perche de Clermont-Ferrand was just his fourth competition of the 2023 indoor season. In all four he has managed to exceed the mythical height of six meters.
Duplantis was born and raised in Louisiana (United States) but internationally defends the colors of Sweden, his mother’s country. She has decided not to participate in this year’s European Indoor Championships, which takes place in Istanbul from March 2-5.
In the test in Clermont he had no rival of his size. The second was the Australian Kurtis Marshall and the third the Dutch Meno Vloon, both with 5.91 meters.
In the female categorythe victory went to the Czech Amalie Svabikova (4.66 meters).
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