Sweden’s Armand Duplantis competes within the males’s pole vault remaining of the athletics occasion on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Picture by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis improved his personal world file en path to retaining his Olympic pole vault title in Paris on Monday.
In a sensational end to the fifth day of observe and area on the Stade de France, Duplantis sailed over the bar raised to six.25 metres to rapturous applause from a 69,000-capacity crowd.
It bettered by 1cm his personal earlier better of 6.24m set on the Xiamen Diamond League meet in April.
Remarkably it was the ninth time the US-born Swede had damaged the file.
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Within the competitors earlier than the procession, American Sam Kendricks gained silver with a better of 5.95m, Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis taking bronze (5.90) on countback.
The gold meant Duplantis grew to become the primary man to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956.
As quickly as he crashed down on the touchdown mat after his third and remaining profitable try at 6.25m, Duplantis bounced away on the observe to embrace household and buddies within the stands.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis passes 6.10m and units the brand new Olympic file within the males’s pole vault remaining of the athletics occasion on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Picture by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
Draped within the Swedish flag and with Abba’s “Dancing Queen” booming across the stadium, Duplantis made an emotional lap of the observe.
The music halted as he leaned right down to ring the victory bell, capping one more distinctive show from the irrepressible 24-year-old.
Competitors opened in excellent, balmy situations at 5.50 metres. Duplantis skipped that, all of his 11 opponents opting, efficiently, to make an try.
The Swede got here in at 5.70m, crusing over with no drawback. He skipped 5.80m, by which period 4 athletes had dropped out.
Area narrowed
Duplantis then cleared 5.85m in his second vault of the night time by a substantial margin.
Kendricks adopted swimsuit, and the pair then went over at 5.95m.
That proved an excessive amount of for the remainder of the sector as Australian Kurtis Marschall, Turkey’s Ersu Sasma, Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines and Karalis fell by the wayside.
Karalis took bronze on 5.90m countback from Obiena, however handed on 5.95.
Philippines’ Ernest John Obiena finishes fourth with Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis taking bronze on countback and American Sam Kendricks bagging the silver with Duplantis breaking the file and retaining his pole vault title within the Paris Olympics on the Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 5, 2024. | Picture by Antonin THUILLIER / AFP
The bar was raised to six.00m. First up was Kendricks, however he introduced down the bar. Duplantis adopted and made no mistake, to the delight of a raucous crowd at France’s nationwide stadium.
Kendricks had two extra failures, leaving simply Duplantis within the competitors. The bar was instantly raised to six.10m which posed no drawback for the Swede.
The gang erupted because the in-track panels flashed up the subsequent peak: 6.25m, a world file mark.
His first effort was very shut, catching the bar together with his elbow.
For his second try, Duplantis requested for the gradual clap in unison made well-known by supporters of Iceland’s soccer crew.
There have been no calls for for the third, simply whole focus.
As he accelerated down the runway, yellow pole held aloft, the group bayed. Efficiently planted, the pole flexed and up shot Duplantis, physique bending so his toes went up first to succeed in a nadir over the bar.
Then got here the explosion of pleasure, with one other world file and a second Olympic gold bagged in a memorable night time’s work.
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