ISTANBUL
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis set a new world pole vault record on Friday, clearing 6.27 meters at the All Star Perche, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting.
“I just felt really good. What can I say? I came here to do it. I put everything in place to do it. The run-up worked really well. I just did it,” Duplantis said after his record-breaking jump.
“Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not, but there’s a lot of hard work, hardship, bad days, good days, everything in between that gets you to the easier moments,” he added.
The 25-year-old, a two-time Olympic and world champion, cleared the height on his first attempt, surpassing his previous record of 6.26 meters set last year.
Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis finished second with a national record clearance of 6.02 meters, while six men cleared 5.91 meters or higher for the first time in a single competition.
