Belgrade [Serbia]March 8 (ANI): The Swedish Olympic pole vault champion, Mondo Duplantis, managed 6.19 meters to break his own world record by one centimeter on Monday at the World Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Belgrade.
The 22-year-old Swedish volter had tried at that height on several occasions over the past two years and had been close to clearing it several times during the indoor season.
But when he returned to the place where he managed a world-leading 6.10 m last year, Duplantis finally succeeded. He opened his series with a first-time clearance of 5.61 m, where all his opponents had left earlier in the competition. He then got over 5.85m and 6.00m on his first attempts.
He got the bar height to 6.19 m and missed his first two attempts. On his third and final attempt, he gave the bar a slight push with his knees but it remained in place, then he jumped up from the landing mat and hit the air to celebrate.
This is the fourth world record in the 22-year-old Duplanti’s career.
His first came in February 2020 when he surpassed London’s gold medalist Renaud Lavillenie’s world record in 2012 by finishing 6.17 meters in Torun, Poland before improving it the following week in Glasgow.
In September of the same year, he managed 6.15 m at the Rome Diamond League meeting to overshadow Sergey Bubka’s world best pole vault outdoors at 6.14 m in Sestriere in July 1994. (ANI)
Source: sn.dk