Armand Duplantis celebrates his historic milestone at the Eugene World Athletics Championships. Photo EFE / EPA / Robert Ghement
Armand Duplantis he had already made sure Gold medal in pole vaulting this Sunday at the World Athletics Championships. However, he had an objective as important as the previous one in store for his last attempts in the final round of the event held in Eugene, USA: to beat his own record.
The 22-year-old athlete, who was born in that North American country but represents Sweden, took his pole and went in search of the company. He ran faster than his legs carried him, he hovered as high as he could and passed the horizontal bar placed at 6.21 meters high, setting a new world record.
Duplantis he touched the sky with his hands. And he realized what he had achieved when he was in full descent, after breaking the record reached in March, when he won the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade by one centimeter.
The bleachers of Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon exploded. So did Duplantis, who started a mad rush, almost as fast as the previous one, towards the spectators. In front of them, he tried a spectacular somersault.
Duplantis, the son of an American pole jumper and a Swedish heptathlete, has added his first world gold to a showcase where he already has European and world indoor titles (2022) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold.
That of this Sunday is his fifth world record and third in 2022. Before the appearance of the Swede, the record belonged to Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie (6.16 meters in 2014), fifth, at 35, with a jump of 5.87 meters.
“Not bad,” Duplantis joked as he carried the microphone to his fans. And he added, addressing the people: “They gave me good energy to help me move forward. it was wonderfulI love Eugenio “.
Armand Duplantis crosses the crossbar located at 6.21 meters and sets a new world record in Eugene. Photo Christian Petersen / Getty Images / AFP
Silver, as at the Tokyo 2020 Games, the American Christopher Nilsen, bronze, both with jumps of 5.94 meters, the Filipino Ernest John Obiena.
All pole vault records
Between Sergei Bubka, the first man to exceed 6 meters on 13 July 1985 in Paris, and the Swede Armand Duplantis, who this Sunday broke his own record with 6.21 meters at the Eugene 2022 World Championships, this is the chronology of the jump with the world record auction of the last nearly three decades:
– 6.00 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 13, 1985 in Paris
– 6.01 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1986 in Moscow
– 6.03 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on 21 June 1987 in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
– 6.05 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
– 6.06 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on 10 July 1988 in Nice (France)
– 6.07 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), May 6, 1991 in Shizuoka (Japan)
– 6.08 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1991 in Moscow
– 6.09 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1991 in Fromia (Italy)
– 6.10 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on August 5, 1991 in Malmö (Sweden)
– 6.11 meters: Sergei Bubka (UKR), June 13, 1992 in Dijon (France)
– 6.12 meters: Sergei Bubka (UKR), on 30 August 1992 in Padua (Italy)
– 6.13 meters: Sergei Bubka (UKR), September 19, 1992 in Tokyo
– 6.14 meters: Sergei Bubka (UKR), on 31 July 1994 in Sestriere (Italy)
– 6.16 meters: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA), February 15, 2014 in Donesk (Ukraine) indoor
– 6.17 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on February 8, 2020 in Torun (Poland) on indoor track
– 6.18 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), 15 February 2020 in Glasgow (UK) indoor
– 6.19 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on 7 March 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) indoor
– 6.20 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), 20 March 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) indoor
– 6.21 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), July 24, 2022 in Eugene (Oregon, USA)
It should be noted that the International Athletics Federation amended its regulations in 2000 allowing for the approval of jumps performed on indoor track as a world record. Sergei Bubka surpassed 6.15 meters on February 21, 1993 in Donetsk, but his jump was approved as an indoor track world record.
Her homologated outdoor world records of 6.08m, 6.09m, 6.10m, 6.11m, 6.12m, 6.13m and 6.14m were preceded by jumps as high as above. indoor track.
With information from AFP and EFE.
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Source: Clarin
