it was a hair from breaking the world record in the hall. At a meeting in Berlin, the Swede attacked. The crossbar was suspended at 6.19 m.
The Swede did everything in perfect style and landed on the mattress. However, after a while the bar dropped. “Wow. So close to breaking the world record in pole vault after the 6.19 m test at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin,” AthleticsWeekly posted on Twitter.
Duplantis came close to breaking the world record in pole vault
How close it was to overcoming the bar may be a different camera shot from Duplantis’ jump.
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As a consolation, Duplantis set a record for the meeting in Berlin. The Swede jumped 6.03 m and beat the achievement, which in 2015 overcame the bar suspended at 6.02 m there.
Armand Duplantis is incl. gold medalist of the European Championships (2018) from Berlin, world runner-up (2019) from Doha and gold medalist of the last Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. In addition, in 2021 he won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Toruń. From 2020, the Swedish pole vaulter holds the absolute world record holder in pole vault with a score of 6.18 m, and at the stadium he is the best result in the history of this discipline – 6.15 m.
“Duplantis grew up in Louisiana and still lives there. In winter, in the indoor season, he twice broke the world record in pole vault, scoring 6.17 in Toruń and 6.18 m in Glasgow. the new one, which broke the world record 35 times. Mondo, as the miracle child of the queen of sports, also gives hope that he will grow into such a star and an ambassador of the discipline, which for a decade has already been the retired king of sprint, ” -.
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