Always higher, he pushes the limits of his discipline once more and once more! The Swedish Armand Duplantis improved his pole vault world record dating from July 2022 by one centimeter by clearing a bar at 6.22 m, Saturday during the All Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand.
The 2021 Olympic champion and 2022 world champion has held the world record since February 8, 2020, when he cleared 6.17m in Torun (Poland) and erased Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie (6.16m), organizer of this meeting.
And since then, little by little, he has been climbing, he is climbing, he is flying higher and higher. Duplantis, 23, has now improved the world record six times, each time by one centimeter and three times in 2022 alone.
“It’s incredible, I don’t know what to say (…) To beat this world record ahead of Renaud (Lavillenie), it’s incredible. I would never have jumped so high if it hadn’t been for Renaud“, did he declare.
“World“, his nickname, collects all the major pole vault titles: in addition to his Olympic medal, he is the indoor and outdoor world champion, as well as the indoor and outdoor European champion.
The All Star Perch was his fourth competition of the winter, and each time he exceeded the mythical height of six meters.
Duplantis, who was born and raised in Louisiana but represents Sweden, the country of his mother, has decided not to participate in the 2023 European Indoor Championships which will take place from March 2-5 in Istanbul.
