PARIS: Sweden's Mondo Duplantis retained his Olympic pole vault title with ludicrous ease on Monday (Aug 5), needing only four successful attempts to take gold with 6.00m, then capped a memorable night by beating his own world record with a clearance of 6.25.
PARIS: Sweden's Mondo Duplantis retained his Olympic pole vault title with ludicrous ease on Monday , needing only four successful attempts to take gold with 6.00m, then capped a memorable night by beating his own world record with a clearance of 6.25.
With all other events finished, the capacity Stade de France crowd then focused fully on Duplantis' bright yellow shirt and neon pink-lit pole frame as he tried to beat the world record of 6.24 he set in April. "I haven’t processed how fantastic that moment was," he said."It’s one of those things that don’t really feel real, such an out-of-body experience.
He sat out 5.80 before flying easily over 5.85, as others all around him were starting to fall by the wayside. The pent-up emotion exploded when he equalled his season’s best of 5.95 but he could not get over 6.00 with three attempts, leaving Duplantis as the winner on that height, without a fail.
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