NEW DELHI: Mondo Duplantis of Sweden set a brand new pole vault world document by clearing 6.26 metres throughout his second try on the Silesia Diamond League assembly on Sunday.
This marks the 24-year-old’s tenth world document, surpassing his earlier better of 6.25 metres, achieved earlier this month whereas retaining his Olympic gold medal in Paris. That is additionally the third time this 12 months that Duplantis has damaged his personal document.
Earlier this month, Duplantis thrilled the Stade de France crowd on the Paris Olympics by breaking the world document for the ninth time.
Regardless of his success, many felt that Duplantis had extra to realize.
On Wednesday in Lausanne, he cleared 6.15 metres to safe a win, hinting at additional accomplishments to come back.
On the Silesia Stadium in Chorzow, after clearing six metres, Duplantis had the bar raised to six.26 metres. His first try was unsuccessful, which lowered expectations from the gang.
Nonetheless, on his second try, the Swede soared over the bar, racing to the monitor after which falling to the bottom in celebration.
In the identical competitors, Olympic silver medallist Sam Kendricks of the US cleared 6.00 metres earlier than failing at 6.08, incomes him second place. Paris bronze-medal winner Emmanouil Karalis of Greece completed third by additionally clearing six metres.
The group had already witnessed Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen shatter the long-standing 3,000 metres world document with a time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds to beat the document set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996 when he ran 7:20.67.
This marks the 24-year-old’s tenth world document, surpassing his earlier better of 6.25 metres, achieved earlier this month whereas retaining his Olympic gold medal in Paris. That is additionally the third time this 12 months that Duplantis has damaged his personal document.
Earlier this month, Duplantis thrilled the Stade de France crowd on the Paris Olympics by breaking the world document for the ninth time.
Regardless of his success, many felt that Duplantis had extra to realize.
On Wednesday in Lausanne, he cleared 6.15 metres to safe a win, hinting at additional accomplishments to come back.
On the Silesia Stadium in Chorzow, after clearing six metres, Duplantis had the bar raised to six.26 metres. His first try was unsuccessful, which lowered expectations from the gang.
Nonetheless, on his second try, the Swede soared over the bar, racing to the monitor after which falling to the bottom in celebration.
In the identical competitors, Olympic silver medallist Sam Kendricks of the US cleared 6.00 metres earlier than failing at 6.08, incomes him second place. Paris bronze-medal winner Emmanouil Karalis of Greece completed third by additionally clearing six metres.
The group had already witnessed Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen shatter the long-standing 3,000 metres world document with a time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds to beat the document set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996 when he ran 7:20.67.
