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Sweden’s Duplantis broke the world record for the 13th time as he soared over the bar at the second attempt to improve on his 6.28m from Stockholm in June.
Armand Duplantis. (Picture Credit: AP)
Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis improved his pole vault world record by one centimetre on Tuesday (August 12), clearing 6.29 metres at the athletics meet in Budapest.
Sweden’s Duplantis broke the world record for the 13th time, soaring over the bar on his second attempt to surpass his 6.28m from Stockholm in June.
It was the 25-year-old’s third record of 2023, having also cleared 6.27m in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
Duplantis notched up his 33rd competition victory, clearing 6.11m on his first attempt, finishing ahead of Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis (6.02m) and Australia’s Kurtis Marschall (5.83m).
On his second attempt at 6.29m, Duplantis touched the bar with one leg and his stomach, but it held, and the jump was validated.
Since Ukrainian Sergey Bubka became the first athlete to clear 6 metres on July 13, 1985, in Paris, the world record has been broken 26 times, including 12 times by Bubka, 13 times by Duplantis, and once by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie.
The US-born Duplantis first broke the world record in 2020 with 6.17m.
Duplantis is favoured for a third consecutive outdoor world title in a month’s time in Tokyo.
Kerley Provisionally Suspended for Whereabouts Failures
Olympic 100 metres silver and bronze medallist Fred Kerley has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for whereabouts failures, the organisation said on Tuesday.
American Kerley, the 100m world champion in 2022, plans to contest the allegation that he violated anti-doping rules.
“He strongly believes that one or more of his alleged missed tests should be set aside either because he was not negligent or because the Doping Control Officer did not do what was reasonable under the circumstances to locate him at his designated location,” an attorney for Kerley said in a statement posted on his X account.
He withdrew from the U.S. track and field trials late last month, writing on social media that he was: “Taking some time out to get back on track.”
“The 100m should be a straight sprint. 2025 has presented many hurdles,” he wrote on X. “Thanks to all my supporters.”
He last competed a month ago at the Grand Sprint Series in Norwalk, California.
(With inputs from AFP and Reuters)
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