Duplantis increases to the 11th Pole Vault World Record

Duplantis solved 6.27 m at the All Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and improved his brand by one centimeter. The double Olympic champion and the world champion made the top priority since he was broken against the world record for the first time in February 2020 and cleared 6.17 m in a meeting in Poland.

He improved the global brand twice this year, three times in 2022, twice in 2023 and three times in the last year. Duplantis creeps in the record of the former Pole Vault Great Sergey Bubka, who from 1984 broke the world record 17 times a period of 10 years. Bubka, the first man who deletes 6 meters, led to 6.14 m, in Sestriere, Italy, 1994.

Duplantis, who set up the previous record of 6.26 m in Silesien, Poland last August, solved 6.27 m. If they enter the sound so early in the year, the Swede will surely bring further heights in the accumulation of the World Cup in Tokyo in September.

“I just felt really good,” said Duplantis to reporters. “What can I say, I came here to do it. I used everything to do it. The lead worked very well. I just did it. “

Emmanouil Karalis from Greece took second place with a national record of 6.02 m when six men were free of 5.91 m or higher in a competition.

His song played over the sound system during his record jump.

“When I made this song a few months ago, I thought that this would be a perfect song that I can jump here. That's why I spent it, ”he said.

Duplantis held the world record since he broke the record of Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie of 6.16 million in 2014 at a meeting in Poland five years ago. Similar to Bubka, the Swede has only improved the record by just one centimeter.

On Friday, Duplantis started the competition with 5.65 m and loosened this height at 5.91 m and 6.02 m on the first attempt. He won the competition by solving 6.07 m before the bar was set to 6.27 m. Clermont-Ferrand is also the venue where he set one of his previous records and solved 6.22 m in 2023.

Last August, Duplantis solved a world record of 6.25 m to keep the Olympic title in Paris, and took up a centimeter in a meeting in Poland 20 days later.