That is the press launch that World Athletics develops after a WR is made. On this case, the third and last WR on the Oregon 22 World Athletics Championships was the 6.21m clearance within the pole vault set by Sweden’s celebrity Mondo Duplantis.
FLASH! Duplantis breaks the world pole vault report with 6.21m in Oregon.
Mondo Duplantis added a centimetre to his personal world pole vault report to say his first outside world title, hovering over 6.21m* because the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 got here to a detailed on an unimaginable excessive on Sunday (24).
The 22-year-old had improved his personal world report mark to six.20m when profitable world indoor gold in Belgrade in March, and he carried that outstanding kind by way of to the outside championships at Hayward Subject.
It’s the fifth time that Duplantis has improved the world report, the Swedish star first breaking it together with his 6.17m clearance in Torun in February 2020.
However it’s the first time he has damaged it outdoor – the final time an out of doors efficiency led to a world report was when pole vault nice Sergey Bubka soared over 6.14m in July 1994, greater than 5 years earlier than Duplantis was even born.
Duplantis has now additionally overtaken Bubka in relation to profession six metre-plus clearances, having managed that feat 48 instances to Bubka’s 46.
In Oregon, Duplantis had earlier cleared a championship report of 6.06m on his first try and had the competitors gained at 6.00m.
USA’s Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen secured a world medal of the identical color after clearing 5.94m. That peak was additionally managed by Philippines’ Ernest John Obiena, who added a centimetre to his personal Asian report to win bronze – the primary ever World Championships medal for his nation.
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