Armand Duplantis, the most famous athlete of the moment with the permission of Noah Lyles, He broke the world record in the pole vault at the Stade de France tonight with a jump of 6.25, achieved on his third attempt. That is Ninth time a Swede sets a world record Since his first record in February 2020.
Then he passed 6.17 meters, beating by one centimeter the record set by his friend and mentor Rino lavellini since 2014. The French bertiguista had seen the final together with the parents of the Nordic genius , who After breaking the record, he went out with a gun to kiss his girlfriend of desire.
Duplantis calmly faced the final with his overwhelming superiority in a season when only one bertigista overcame the six-meter barrier, American Christopher Nielsen, who did not pass the qualifying screen after making three mistakes more than 5.60.
The Swede , on the other hand, He has not taken a single empty jump less than six meters since the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow Last March, when he needed three attempts to get 5.85.
Shortly after, on April 20, He was going to beat the world record for his specialty for the eighth time at the Xiamen meeting (China), the first round of the Diamond League.
This is a sunny and windy Monday in the French capital , just the conditions that the perteguista appreciates At the time of the jump, ‘Mondo’ started with a 5.70-meter flight in which the bar was not taken for granted.
The Swede abandoned the jump above 5.80 and returned to the corridor above 5.85, a height that was also not the least challenge. After a second layoff over 5.90, five competitors remain in the competition, Duplantis was clean above 5.95. We were already entering a no-man’s-land zone, at least in 2024.
Sam Kendricks, the other bertiguista who passed 5.95, failed in his three attempts over 6.00 – The bronze was for the Greek Emmanuel Karalis with a score of 5.90-and the final show was left in the hands of the good Armand, who, after surpassing the first 6 meters and 6.10, the Olympic record, asked to set the bar at 6.25…
The first two attempts, with the comb given to Duplantis, were clearly nullified – in both cases he knocked down the bar with his knees. In addition, between the first and second jump there was a medal ceremony for the men’s 100 meters. Protocol stuff.
Already on the third, with the decibels across the clouds, Duplantis cleanly crossed the bar and unleashed madness. The celebration ended with the disc jockey playing ‘dancing queen’ in full size, Definitely a reference to the nationality of our protagonist. The first major celebration of the Olympic athletics in Paris was an unforgettable one.
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Duplantis is the second bertiguista with two Olympic medals. The only one so far was American Bob Richards, who achieved his victories in Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956.
Not even the great Sergey Bubka He was able to match them. The Ukrainian missed the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the year he achieved his first four records, due to the Soviet boycott and was crowned in Seoul 1988.
Then they came The 1992 Barcelona ‘accident’, when he committed three worthless in his first high (5.70 and 5.75) of the final, The 1996 Atlanta heel injury and the worthless three in the Sydney 2000 qualifier.
Duplantis, on the other hand, achieved his second Olympic gold medal at the age of 24. The Scandinavian bird, who grew up in Louisiana (USA), has not lost a major competition since the Doha World Cup 2019, When he was beaten by Sam Kendricks.
Since then he has won two Olympic golds, four World Championships – two outdoor and two indoor -, two European outdoor crowns and one more indoor. In total, the, Nine consecutive titles embody his humiliating dominance.
