Sweden’s Armand Duplantis poses for {a photograph} as he celebrates after setting a brand new pole vault world record (6.24m) in the course of the Xiamen IAAF Diamond League athletics assembly at Egret Stadium in Xiamen, in China’s jap Fujian province, on April 20, 2024.
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Armand Duplantis put down a marker forward of this yr’s Paris Olympics because the Swede broke his personal pole vault world record with a 6.24 metres effort in the primary Diamond League assembly of the 2024 season on Saturday.
Duplantis bettered his earlier mark of 6.23 metres set on the Eugene Diamond League finale in September, clearing the bar with ease earlier than leaping up off the sponge mat beneath and racing off in celebration at his first out of doors occasion of the yr.
It was the eighth time that Duplantis broke the world record, and the 24-year-old was the one man to clear six metres on the Egret Stadium.
The Olympic and two-time world out of doors champion had added a second world indoor title to his spectacular resume in March, and he’s set to move into his second Games in July and August because the agency favorite.
Australian Torrie Lewis loved a shocking Diamond League debut because the 19-year-old pipped a powerful subject of American rivals that included Sha’Carri Richardson to assert the ladies’s 200m gold with an effort of twenty-two.96 from lane 9.
Richardson, winner of the 200m bronze ultimately yr’s world championships, completed second in 22.99 forward of her compatriots Tamara Clark, Anavia Battle and Twanisha Terry.
World champion Marileidy Paulino earlier captured the primary observe gold of the Diamond League season in the ladies’s 400m, because the Dominican eased dwelling in 50.08 seconds, forward of Natalia Kaczmarek (50.29) and Britton Wilson (51.26).
Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn then set the tempo in the ladies’s 100m hurdles, with the Puerto Rican cruising to victory in 12.45 seconds.
