Sweden’s Armand Duplantis claimed gold and set a brand new world document within the males’s Olympic pole vault ultimate.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his personal world document and retained his Olympic pole vault title in Paris.
In a sensational finale to the fifth day of athletics on the Stade de France on Monday, Duplantis leapt over the 6.25-metre excessive bar to enthusiastic applause from a capability crowd of 69,000.
She improved by 1cm her earlier better of 6.24m, set on the Xiamen Diamond League match in April.
Remarkably, it was the ninth time the American-born Swede broke the document.
Workforce USA’s Sam Kendricks gained silver with a better of 5.95 metres, whereas Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis took bronze (5.90 metres) on a tiebreaker.
The gold meant Duplantis grew to become the primary man to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956.
After securing victory, Duplantis, wrapped within the Swedish flag and with Abba’s Dancing Queen enjoying within the stadium, made an emotional lap of the observe.
