Armand Duplantis, who won his second Olympic gold, crowned his super day with his ninth pole vault ME result.
5.8. 23:20•Updated 5.8. 23:48
Armand Duplantis has bent the pole vault world record 625.
It is the second Olympic gold in the Swedish star’s career. In addition to this, he won two World Championship golds and three European championships on outdoor tracks.
Duplantis had secured his Olympic gold and jumped 610 until he decided the bar would be set to new ME heights.
The world record was achieved on the third, or last, attempt.
– Who is comparing us? Sweden is on top, Duplantis shouted to the TV cameras after his jump.
– Olympic gold and world record! What more can be said here, Duplantis father Greg Duplantis hekumoi according to Aftonbladet.
Duplantis broke his previous pole vault world record in April at the Diamond League competition in China. For the first time, the athletics megastar jumped the world record in the 2020 indoor season.
Duplantis will only turn 25 at the end of the year. Duplantis, who once won the youth world championship in Tampere, has said that the constant success has not quenched his hunger for victory, but that he intends to continue his career as long as he can.
of the USA Sam Kendricks offered a good resistance, but with his score of 595, he too narrowed down quite a bit to the Swede. Greek Emmanuel Karalis took bronze with a score of 590. Karalis took the first pole medal for Greece in 68 years.