VIDEO. And one more! Armand Duplantis, recent Olympic champion, has set a new world record in pole vaulting

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Le Suédois Armand Duplantis a amélioré son record du monde du saut à la perche en passant dimanche, au deuxième essai, une barre à 6,26 m au meeting de la Ligue de diamant de Chorzow, en Pologne.

Holder of the world record in his discipline since February 2020 and a jump of 6.17 m in Torun, already in Poland, "Mondo" Duplantis erased the best mark in history for the tenth time, twenty days after his last record of 6.25 m set at the Paris Olympics.

Freshly crowned in Paris, the Swede had cleared 6.15 m on Wednesday at the Lausanne meeting, without having “trained so much” since the end of the Olympics.

In Silesia on Sunday, Armand Duplantis cleared 5.62m on his first attempt, then 5.92m and 6.00m to take the lead in the competition ahead of American Sam Kendricks and Greek Emmanouil Karalis, before going after his world record.

On his first attempt at 6.26m, Duplantis missed his jump, going under the bar before to rectify the situation on his second attempt, where he touched the bar but did not knock it over, under the eyes of the previous world record holder Renaud Lavillenie, also involved in Chorzow.