Sweden's Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for 13th time
Sweden's Armand Duplantis celebrates after setting a new pole vault world record of 6.29m at the Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix in Budapest on Aug 12.
BUDAPEST - Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29m at the Hungarian Grand Prix meeting in Budapest on Aug 12, the 13th time he has set a new world-best mark.
The double-Olympic champion continued his tradition of improving on his previous mark by one centimetre, with his second attempt at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial overhauling the record he set in Stockholm in June.
Duplantis had looked a little off his best form, missing his first attempt at 6.11, and after Greece's Emmanouil Karalis retired after failing twice at the same height the Swede had the bar raised to make his usual world record attempt.
The 25-year-old two-time world champion was unsuccessful on his first try, and while he rattled the bar slightly on his second effort, Duplantis looked up almost in disbelief to see that he had once again reached new heights in a discipline he is utterly dominating.
Duplantis, who won his second world title in the same stadium in 2023, ran straight to the crowd to celebrate with his partner Desire Inglander and his family,
The American-born Duplantis first broke the world record in 2020 in Poland, and since then has taken the sport to another level, and on Aug 16 he competes at the Silesia Diamond League, where he also broke the world record in 2024. REUTERS
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