Pole Vault Star Armand Duplantis Registers New World Record in France

Armand Duplantis of Sweden set a brand new world pole vault document of 6.22 metres at an indoor assembly in France on Saturday, describing it as “nearly an out-of-body expertise”.

Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m that he set in winning the world title outdoors in Oregon last year.

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Competing at the All-Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, central France organised by 2012 Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie, Duplantis cleared the new record at his third attempt to the delight of the 4,000-strong crowd.

Duplantis, 23, said: “When you have moments like this, when the energy is so high, and you’re going down there for the record, it feels like levitating, it feels like my body never even touched the ground the whole jump.

“There’s something about it that just feels overwhelming right now, and I really think it’s because Renaud means so much to me, he’s meant so much to me since I first started, he’s been my biggest inspiration, biggest idol.

“He really motivated me, made me believe that I could break the world record. So for me to break the world record here, his hometown, his competition that he hosts…”

US-born Duplantis entered the competitors at 5.71m, clearing that peak at his first try.

He handed at 5.81m and managed 5.91m on his second attempt earlier than successful the competitors by clearing 6.01m on his first try earlier than having the bar raised to the document peak.

It was the sixth time that Duplantis has damaged the world document.

He set the primary in Torun in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17m so as to add a centimetre to Lavillenie’s earlier world document of 6.16m that had stood since 2014.

“Each world document feels prefer it brings one thing a bit completely different out of me,” Duplantis said. “Maybe the first one might have been a bit crazier, but this might be number two right now, it’s really unbelievable.”

He stated re-writing the document books now not left him with any nerves.

“The stress doesn’t actually really feel the identical anymore to me. I’ve proved loads the previous few years, the previous two years particularly, and I do know what sort of jumper I’m, what I’m able to.

“I do know that I’m deserving to be in the spot that I’m.”

Duplantis is giving the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul next month a miss so will focus on the outdoor season and winning back-to-back world outdoor titles in Budapest in August.

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