Duplantis breaks pole vault world record to win gold in Tokyo

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Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis sails implicit the barroom to acceptable a 14th rod vault grounds astatine the World Athletic Championships successful Tokyo.

Published On 15 Sep 2025

Mondo Duplantis has breached the rod vault satellite grounds for the 14th clip with a leap of 6.3m (20ft, 8 inches) connected his 3rd effort arsenic helium wins a 3rd consecutive satellite title.

The golden medal was already unafraid for the American-born Swede connected Monday erstwhile helium had the barroom raised a centimetre (0.4 inches) higher than the grounds tallness of 6.29m helium managed successful Budapest past month.

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He failed by the narrowest of margins astatine his archetypal 2 attempts but, roared connected by a captivated assemblage astatine the National Stadium, slid implicit connected the 3rd with the barroom giving a flimsy wobble earlier settling.

The stadium exploded arsenic the 25-year-old raced implicit to observe with his household successful the assemblage earlier being mobbed by his delighted rivals.

It was a stark opposition with the scenes astatine the aforesaid arena 4 years agone erstwhile Duplantis won the archetypal of his 2 Olympic titles with the Tokyo nationalist locked retired due to the fact that of the COVID pandemic.

Seven of the 12 vaulters cleared 5.90m successful an unusually beardown contention but the contest, specified arsenic it was, soon came down to Duplantis and Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis.

Karalis, bronze medalist down Duplantis astatine the Paris Olympics, secured the metallic medal with a leap of 6.00m but failed astatine 6.10m, 6.15m and 6.20m arsenic helium tried to enactment immoderate unit connected the reigning champion.

Duplantis sailed implicit astatine 6.10m and 6.15m and past gave the assemblage and athletics satellite what it wanted with his 4th satellite grounds leap of the season.