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Official world record can be set in a facility "with or without roof". A new indoor best mark is accepted as the new world record if it is better than the best outdoor mark; Duplantis already held the world record at 6.18 m (20 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) from his indoor clearance in February 2020. [69] Duplantis at the 2020 BAUHAUS-galan meeting in ...
Duplantis, who went pro in 2019 after one year at LSU, has now broken the world record 10 times in the past four years of competition. His first time was in February 2020, when he set a record of ...
Gold medalist Armand Duplantis of Sweden celebrates with family and staff members after setting a new world record during the Men's Pole Vault Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at ...
Armand Duplantis set a new record of 6.24 meters. - Tingshu Wang/Reuters “I know what I need to do to get into those 6.30-type marks,” he told CNN’s Amanda Davies in April.
When he came crashing down into the padding on the other side of that sky-high, pink-tinted bar, so was another world record. Duplantis, the Louisiana-born 24-year-old who competes for his mother's native Sweden, cleared 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches) to break the world record for the ninth time — but the first time on his sport’s grandest ...
Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. This new rule was not applied retroactively. The introduction in the early 1950s of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber allowed vaulters to achieve greater height.
Through the next height of 5.85m, only five got over the bar. World record holder / defending champion Armand Duplantis and Thibaut Collet remained perfect. At 5.90m Ernest John Obiena, Chris Nilsen and Collet cleared on their first attempt. Kurtis Marschall missed his first attempt, then passed to the next height. Duplantis passed it entirely.
With Armand Duplantis, the question is never whether he’ll win but how high he’ll fly. The 24-year-old Swede had broken the pole vault world record eight times, pushing the limits of ...