Duplantis breaks world pole vault record with 6.21m in Oregon | REPORT | WCH 22 | World Athletics

Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis added a centimetre to his personal world pole vault document to assert his first out of doors world title, hovering over 6.21m* because the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 got here to an in depth on an unimaginable excessive on Sunday (24).

The 22-year-old had improved his personal document mark to six.20m when profitable world indoor gold in Belgrade in March and he carried that outstanding type by way of to the out of doors championships at Hayward Discipline. Afterwards he insisted that he solely had that medal in thoughts – the world document not his focus this time – however with victory secured at 6.00m, he had the bar moved 21 centimetres greater and took the title in sensational model.

It’s the fifth time that Duplantis has improved the world document, the Swedish star first breaking it together with his 6.17m clearance in Torun in February 2020. That added a centimetre to the document set by Renaud Lavillenie in Donetsk in 2014.

However it’s the first time that Duplantis has damaged it outdoor – the final time an outside efficiency led to a world document was when pole vault nice Sergey Bubka soared over 6.14m in July 1994, greater than 5 years earlier than Duplantis was even born.

Duplantis has now additionally overtaken Bubka in relation to profession six metre-plus clearances, having managed that feat 48 instances to Bubka’s 46.

“It was the medal I used to be lacking,” stated Duplantis, who had earlier cleared a championship document of 6.06m on his first try and obtained a cheque for US$100,000 alongside together with his gold medal. “Often, it (the world document) is all the time someplace behind my thoughts, however right now I used to be targeted on the win.”

In entrance of a passionate residence crowd, USA’s Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen secured a world medal of the identical color after clearing 5.94m. That top was additionally managed by Philippines’ Ernest John Obiena, who added a centimetre to his personal Asian document to win bronze – the primary ever World Championships medal for his nation.

Duplantis entered the competitors at 5.70m and determined to go at 5.80m. The one blemish on his method to victory was a first-time failure at 5.87m, however he quickly regained composure with an enormous clearance of that top on his second attempt, transferring him right into a share of the bronze medal place at that stage.

Sitting with a towel over his head, he waited for his flip to aim 5.94m and achieved it on his first go, once more with loads of room to spare. Nilsen had been the primary to clear that top and so Duplantis joined him on the high of the outcomes board, the US champion additionally needing two tries at 5.87m.

Obiena positioned eleventh in final yr’s Olympic ultimate however he launched himself into the medals together with his Asian document efficiency. Clearing 5.94m on his second attempt, his podium place was confirmed when 2012 Olympic champion Lavillenie and Germany’s Bo Kanda Lita Baehre each failed their third makes an attempt on the top and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Thiago Braz was unable to make it over 6.00m, the Brazilian having handed straight to that try slightly than attempt 5.94m for a 3rd and ultimate time.

Duplantis achieved the forty sixth six metre-plus clearance of his profession on his first attempt after which stood again up on the mat, put his arms on his hips and nodded to the group earlier than punching the air. He then clapped in assist as Nilsen began off on his second try at 6.00m, nevertheless it wasn’t to be, and Duplantis was confirmed as champion when each Nilsen and Obiena failed their third and ultimate makes an attempt.

The bar then moved to a championship document top – 6.06m so as to add a centimetre to the mark achieved by Australia’s Dmitri Markov in Edmonton in 2001. Once more, Duplantis made it look really easy – clearing the bar on his first attempt to spreading his arms extensive earlier than bowing to the group.

There was no shock as to what top he tried subsequent.

With the bar at 6.21m, all eyes had been on the runway as Duplantis tried to launch himself skyward, however he aborted the try. He sat chatting with Lavillenie as he waited for his second go after which, with all different motion having concluded, he returned to the monitor.

Within the highlight as soon as once more, the world watched as he launched himself up and over. As Duplantis fell, the bar stayed nonetheless and the pole vault star bounced straight again up earlier than sprinting down the monitor and doing a ahead flip in celebration.

“I really like leaping in Eugene and it was wonderful right here,” he stated.

Nilsen was additionally delighted together with his personal outcome on residence soil. “Mondo goes to maintain breaking information and I’m simply going to maintain doing my factor,” stated the 24-year-old, who additionally claimed world indoor bronze in Belgrade. “This medal implies that I’m very constant in what I’m doing – to be the highest three on the earth.”

Obiena, who missed out on the ultimate in Doha three years in the past, returned to the world stage with the efficiency of his life and stated: “I didn’t count on that I’d soar that top. And I’d not assume that it might really take that top to win a medal. So I’m positively blissful.”

4 athletes cleared a better of 5.87m, Braz ending fourth on countback forward of Germany’s Oleg Zernikel, Lavillenie and Lita Baehre.

Jess Whittington for World Athletics

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