Armand Duplantis was close to the new world record in the Mondo Classic, a pole vault gala, carrying his own name.
Swedish superstar of athletics Armand Duplantis has made eleven ME in his career, but he has not yet managed to make a world record on Swedish soil.
– I’m a little annoyed, but at the same time happy because the competition was great and I did my best. I shouldn’t complain, this was (for the top) like the Olympic Final, Duplantis talked For SVT.
The first attempt from 628 was close to succeeding. The other company was a little worse. For the third time, the energy seemed to have ended.
– I wanted to jump a world record in Sweden and I know it is still happening. I’m looking forward to this year, “Mondo” said in Uppsala.
When Duplantis cleared six meters easily, the graphics showed that he was actually 20 cents above the bar.
This was already 68.
Duplantis won the show competition with a score of 605. Second -second Greek Emmanoil karalis exceeded 600 and third -time Sam kendricks Made the best of the season – 590.
“I feel much better this year than last year,” Duplantis revealed, who made the current ME result 627 a couple of weeks ago in the Clermont-Ferrand competition in France.
Duplantis’s next measure is the World Championship Hall in Nanjing, China from 21-23. March.