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Armand Duplantis is on a new world record hunt.
Now his decision makes the expert, and pole vault icon Mrio Zalar, drop his chin.
– It’s sick unreal, he says.
Few athletes are as superior in their sport as Armand Duplantis is in athletics. He has won pretty much every competition he has competed in recent years, he has won World Cup gold, Olympic gold, Diamond League – and broken several world records.
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Armand Duplantis has jumped higher than anyone else before, at a height of 6.15 – and indoors, the record is just even more astonishing. He has broken his own world record several times now, and has himself raised the record height to 6.20. And now he is entering a new season where many expect him to take the height further.
Duplantis himself has via videos on social media shown the competitors that he is in super shape during training before the season. And he also has another ace up his sleeve. If you jump so high, you need a certain type of rod, which is as stiff as possible, and now Duplantis shifts up further.
“It’s sick unreal”
Mondos is now telling Radiosporten about his new venture – which will take him to further record heights.
– 11.7 in flex numbers is the biggest stick I jumped on. I have one more that is a little stiffer, which is 11.5. I hope to be able to use it during the summer season. When it gets stiffer and stiffer, there is a little margin, which means a lot, he says to the radio channel.
And Duplanti’s decision surprised. The icon and expert Miro Zalar, who himself was a world-class pole vaulter who is active, believes that the poles are not for everyone.
– It’s a terribly hard rod. If Zalar had had it, he would have killed himself. That he can bend away from such a hard rod is sickly unreal, says Miro Zalar.
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