In the men’s pole vault, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis successfully defended his gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics and set a new world mark.
On Monday, the 24-year-old made his third and last try to clear the 6.25-meter mark, breaking his personal record of 6.24 meters from April by a mere millimetre.
Long before that, he had already won gold for the second time in a row after defeating American Sam Kendricks with a clearance of 6.00 meters.
Following his victory celebration, Duplantis went on to break the 6.03-meter Olympic record held by Thiago Braz of Brazil in 2016.
The world record has now been broken nine times by the two-time champion.
Additionally, after America’s Bob Richards won the pole vault championship in 1952 and 1956, he became the first athlete to do so.
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