High-flyer Armand Duplantis has improved his own world record in pole vault to 6.22 m. The 23-year-old Swede surpassed this mark on Saturday at the indoor meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in his third attempt.
The 2021 Olympic champion and 2022 world champion has held the world record since February 8, 2020, when he jumped 6.17m in Torun, Poland, ousting Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie in the record list. Since then, he has improved this mark bit by bit by one centimeter.
Duplantis won gold at the World Championships last summer in Eugene with 6.21 m. Pole vault records in the hall are recognized by the world federation WA – unlike in other disciplines – as an improvement on the world record.
To further improve the record, as he has done five times before, is the "main goal" in this indoor season, the European champion recently said. Duplantis will not participate in the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul (2 to 5 March).