The Olympic champion units a brand new pole vault world file of 6.22 meters at an indoor assembly in France.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis has damaged his personal pole vault file, clearing 6.22 meters so as to add one centimeter to his earlier mark on the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver assembly in France.
After knocking the bar in his first two makes an attempt on the peak, the 23-year-old Olympic champion cleared the mark on Saturday with room to spare on the third attempt, letting out a cheer as the group went right into a frenzy of celebration.
He had barely touched the mat earlier than a sprig of sparklers went off and meet director Renaud Lavillenie, the Olympic champion in 2012, ran to embrace him.
Duplantis had gained the competitors already when he cleared 6.01 meters on the primary attempt, as Australian Kurtis Marschall completed second with a 5.91 meters leap whereas the Netherlands’s Menno Vloon took third.
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🤩 Phenomenal! 🇸🇪 Armand Duplantis est sur le toit du monde à Clermont-Ferrand en s’élevant à 6️⃣,2️⃣2️⃣ m !
Il faudra lentement relever le ceiling!
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— FFAthlétisme (@FFAthlétisme) February 25, 2023
The Swedish athlete likened his pole vault world file to “an out-of-body expertise”.
“When you’ve got moments like this, when the power is so excessive, and also you’re taking place there for the file, it looks like levitating, it looks like my physique by no means even touched the bottom the entire leap,” he stated.
It was the sixth time that Duplantis has damaged the world file.
He set the primary in Torun, Poland, in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17 meters so as to add a centimeter to Lavillenie’s earlier world file of 6.16 meters that had stood since 2014.
Saturday’s effort additionally marks the sixtieth time the Swede has cleared six meters or larger.
“Every world file feels prefer it brings one thing a bit totally different out of me,” Duplantis stated. “Possibly the primary one may need been a bit crazier, however this is perhaps quantity two proper now, it is actually unbelievable.”
He stated rewriting the file books now not left him with any nerves.
“The strain would not actually really feel the identical to me anymore. I’ve proved quite a bit the previous few years, the previous two years particularly, and I do know what sort of jumper I’m, what I’m able to.
“I do know that I’m deserving to be within the spot that I’m.”
