Sun 26 February 2023:
Armand Duplantis of Sweden beat his own pole vault record at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver event in France, clearing 6.22 meters to increase it by one centimeter.
The 23-year-old Olympic champion cleared the mark on Saturday with room to spare on the third try after knocking the bar in his first two efforts at the height, eliciting a cheer as the fans went into a frenzy of delight.
Renaud Lavillenie, the 2012 Olympic champion, who was the meet director, ran to embrace him as soon as he on the mat after a spray of sparklers went off.
When Duplantis cleared 6.01 meters on his first attempt, he had already won the contest. Kurtis Marschall of Australia came in second with a jump of 5.91 meters, and Menno Vloon of the Netherlands came in third.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis sets a new pole vault world record of 6.22 metres at an indoor meeting in France.#ArmandDuplantis pic.twitter.com/iS7LsunGB4
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🤩 Phénoménal ! 🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis est sur le toit du monde à Clermont-Ferrand en s’élevant à 6️⃣,2️⃣2️⃣ m !
Il faudra bientôt relever le plafond ! 😱
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The Swedish athlete likened his pole vault world record to “an out-of-body experience”.
“When you have moments like this, when the energy is so high, and you’re going down there for the record, it feels like levitating, it feels like my body never even touched the ground the whole jump,” he said.
He set the first in Torun, Poland, in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17 metres to add a centimetre to Lavillenie’s previous world record of 6.16 metres that had stood since 2014.
Saturday’s effort also marks the 60th time the Swede has cleared six metres or higher.
“Each world record feels like it brings something a bit different out of me,” Duplantis said. “Maybe the first one might have been a bit crazier, but this might be number two right now, it’s really unbelievable.”
He said rewriting the record books no longer left him with any nerves.
“I know that I am deserving to be in the spot that I am.”
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