PARIS (Reuters) – Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.25 metres at the third attempt on Monday having retained the Olympic gold medal with a 6.00m leap. Duplantis had earlier cleared 6.10 to set an Olympic record and, with the entire stadium watching after all other events had […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.25 metres at the third attempt on Monday having retained the Olympic gold medal with a 6.00m leap.
Duplantis had earlier cleared 6.10 to set an Olympic record and, with the entire stadium watching after all other events had finished, he surpassed the 6.24 mark he set in April.
(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Ed Osmond)