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Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...
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 ...
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.
Armand Duplantis of Sweden in action while winning the gold medal and breaking the world record jumping 6.25m during the Men's Pole Vault Final during the Athletics Competition at the Stade de ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record in gold-medal performance at Olympics; Paris Olympics Day 10: Biles closes out with her 11th career medal — a silver in floor exercise; Sweden's Armand Duplantis breaks his own world record to win gold in the Olympic pole vault, clearing 6.25 meters
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis extended his dominant reign over the world of pole vaulting on Saturday, setting his eighth world record in the discipline at the season’s first Diamond League ...