Armand Duplantis from Sweden sets world record pole vault

Paris: At an indoor conference in Poland on Saturday, Armand Duplantis from Sweden set a world record pole vault of 6.17 meters.

Duplantis is an American-born 20-year-old who won a silver medal at the Doha World Championships last year. His second attempt at Torun broke the barrier and broke French vaulter Renaud Lavillenie in 2014. A record of 6.16 million in February. .

“This has been what I have wanted since I was three years old,” said Duplantis on the World Athletics website.

“This is an important year, but it is a good way to start.”

The 2012 Olympic champion, Lavillenie, said it was not surprising that his results were being overshadowed.

The 33-year-old Frenchman told RMC Sports after a race in Rouen: “It’s no surprise. For two years I knew he had potential.” “The record was defeated. He has enough time to do more OK, this is amazing.”

During a meeting in Düsseldorf on Tuesday, Duplantis almost broke the record.

His performance clearly marked him as the favorite of the Tokyo Olympic champions this year.

Duplantis has long been considered the person most likely to promote the event, and he is starting to break records at the age of seven.

When he won the European Outdoor Champion of the € 605 million World Junior Outdoor Championship in Berlin in 2018, he announced his extraordinary talents to a wide audience.

Led by his American father, Greg-Duplantis, it is the product of a fanatic family who once owned his own vault in the garden, and Greg himself cleaned up 5.8 million vaults.

Last year he participated in a game at Louisiana State University.