Duplantis breaks the pole vault world record with a score of 6.24!
Withcentimeter by centimeter. Armand Duplantis will hit again this Saturday world record in pole vault, jumping 6.24, at the Chinese competition in Xiamen, the first event of the Diamond League, a circuit whose start this year has been pushed back to April.
The Swede’s fight was majestic. She entered the competition with a score of 5.62, a bar she surpassed on her first try. He did not want to jump to a height of 5.72, the height at which the first serious selection among the participants was made, and only three were already participating in the race.
The Swede, who burst on every attempt, jumped 5.82 without any problems, with a wide range of jumps, also over 6.00 meters, which foreshadowed what he finally confirmed in his last attempt. It was at a distance of 6.00 meters that the American Kendricks stumbled, finishing second in the test with a score of 5.82.
While the 800-meter race in tartan, won by Canadian Marco Arop, was finishing, Duplantis was preparing to set a new world record. Confident in himself, aware that there is a mark on his body, The Swede turned into the corridor, rose over the crossbar and flew in 6.24. on a scale that allowed him to sign a new world record for the first time.
Rivals are also giving in to the Swede’s potential. American Kendricks, a world champion in his specialty, assured after the meeting that “he has the hand of God on his back… He is becoming a real champion, which we all want him to be.”
This is the eighth time Duplantis has broken the all-time record in the pole vault.The last time, 6.23, he improved it in a meeting with Evgeniy, in the final of the Diamond League. in September last year. Then he achieved what he did not achieve at the previous world championships in Budapest, where he also tried to improve the world record, although he was left with the “only” universal gold prize.
The Swede set his first world record in Torun in 2020, improving the result of the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie by 6.16 with a jump of 6.17. Since then, in just four years, he has improved the pole vault world record by seven centimeters.
We must remember that Bubka, considered the best pole vaulter in history before the arrival of Duplantis, It began its global dominance with a 5.85 in 1984 and surpassed 6.14 a decade later. in Sestriere (Italy).