Mondo Duplantis had the group on the Stade de France roaring their enthusiasm as he notched his pole vault world report up one centimetre on the Paris Olympics on Monday, leaping 6.25 metres on his third try. It was the second world report of the Video games; the primary was set on the observe by Group USA within the blended 4x400m relay on Friday.
Swedish star Mondo Duplantis soared 6.25m to set the ninth world pole vault report of his profession and cap a gold medal-winning efficiency at @Paris2024 👏#Paris2024 FLASH ⬇️
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 5, 2024
The world report was the icing on the cake for Duplantis, who already had the gold medal locked up when he determined to go for the report, having cleared 6.10 on his first strive. Group USA’s Sam Kendricks took silver with a season’s finest soar of 5.95 metres, and Emmanouil Karalis of Greece took house the bronze medal, with 5.90 metres. And it was the second time this yr that he’s set a brand new world report; he cleared 6.24 for the primary time at Shanghai Diamond League on April 20.
Duplantis, 24, additionally holds the indoor world report (at 6.22m), gained gold on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and is the two-time world champion, each open air and indoors. He’s the best pole vaulter within the historical past of the game, and a wildly common performer at main Video games and Diamond League occasions.
Based on the commentators, the final time an athlete set a world report in a discipline occasion on the Olympics was 1984, when Daley Thompson of Nice Britain broke the world decathlon report.
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