athletics
Pole vaulter Duplantis with next world record
At the first Diamond League meeting of the Olympic year, pole vault star Armand Duplantis set a record. photo
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At the first Diamond League meeting of the Olympic year, pole vault star Armand Duplantis sets a record.
Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has increased his world record again. The 24-year-old Swede crossed 6.24 meters in Xiamen, China. The Olympic champion and world champion, who is only known as “Mondo”, increased the previous record by one centimeter.
Duplantis achieved it on September 17th last year in Eugene, Oregon. He initially mastered 6.00 meters without any problems and then achieved the world record height straight away.
The German champion Bo Kanda Lita Baehre stayed at the first Diamond League meeting Olympic season without a valid attempt. The European Championship runner-up, who was injured for a long time last year after a fall, failed three times at 5.42 meters, but according to the TV broadcaster Sky, he also had to do without his own bars. They had not arrived in China.