Sweden’s Armand Duplantis captured the gold and soared to a brand new world file on the males’s Olympic pole vault closing.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis beat his personal world file en path to retaining his Olympic pole vault title in Paris.
In a sensational end to the fifth day of observe and discipline on the Stade de France on Monday, Duplantis sailed over the bar raised to six.25 metres to rapturous applause from a 69,000-capacity crowd.
It bettered by 1cm his earlier better of 6.24 metres, set on the Xiamen Diamond League meet in April.
Remarkably, it was the ninth time the United States-born Swede had damaged the file.
Group USA’s Sam Kendricks gained silver with a better of 5.95 metres, with Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis taking bronze (5.90 metres) on countback.
The gold meant Duplantis turned the primary man to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956.
After securing the victory, Duplantis, draped within the Swedish flag and with Abba’s Dancing Queen booming across the stadium, made an emotional lap of the observe.
