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Mondo Duplantis creates pole vault world record for 13th time, clears 6.29m; watch video
Mondo has now soared 15 centimetres higher than Sergey Bubka, who Duplantis once described as 'mythological'. Armand Duplantis established new world record in pole vault at the 15th Gyulai Istvan Memorial Track and Field Hungarian Grand Prix. Image: AP Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29 metres at the Hungarian Grand Prix meeting in Budapest on Tuesday, the 13th time he has set a new world mark as he continues to defy gravity. The double-Olympic champion maintained his tradition of improving on his previous record by one centimetre, with his second attempt at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial overhauling the mark he set in Stockholm in June. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Duplantis sets world record for 13th time Duplantis had looked a little off his best form, missing his first attempt at 6.11 and, after Greece's Emmanouil Karalis retired having failed twice at the same height, the Swede had the bar raised to make his usual world record attempt. Desiré Inglander shares her POV of her fiancé Mondo Duplantis breaking the pole vault world record today by clearing 6.29m 🐐 🇸🇪 — CITIUS MAG (@CitiusMag) August 12, 2025 The 25-year-old twice 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 he had again reached a new height in the discipline he dominates. 'I love Hungary very much. The track is very good, I love the crowd, I would like to return, thank you,' Duplantis said. 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. On Monday, Duplantis missed most of the press conference ahead of the Budapest meeting, apologising when he turned up late, saying he had a lot of work to do on his time management. 'I think I'll have to make up for it tomorrow with a big leap,' Duplantis said. He duly stayed true to his word to the delight of the Budapest crowd, and has now soared 15 centimetres higher than Sergey Bubka, who Duplantis once described as 'mythological'. The American-born Duplantis first broke the world record in 2020 in Poland, with his leap of 6.17 surpassing by one centimetre the previous record set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie six years earlier. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Lavillenie had beaten Bubka's best jump of 6.14, which had stood for almost 20 years, but Duplantis has taken the sport to another level and on Saturday competes at the Silesia Diamond League, where he also broke the world record last year.
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19-03-2025
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NZ boy becomes first 15-yr-old to run sub-4 minute mile
Australia's teenage middle distance sensation Cam Myers looks to have an Oceanian rival as, across the Tasman, New Zealand celebrates a young athletics phenom who's run his way into athletics folklore. At the tender age of 15, Ruthe became the only lad of his age - and the youngest athlete in history - to run a sub four-minute mile on Wednesday, some 71 years since Roger Bannister first achieved an athletic landmark once fondly believed to have been impossible. Ruthe, who looks like another great New Zealand miling superstar in the making like Jack Lovelock, Peter Snell and John Walker, smashed the landmark by two seconds at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, helped to a time of three minute 58.35 seconds by pacemakers. View this post on Instagram A post shared by CITIUS MAG | Running + Track and Field News (@citiusmag) Ruthe, who finished second in the race, beat his previous mark of 4:01.72 achieved at the Cooks Classic in Whanganui in January. The previous record for youngest sub four-minute miler was held by the Norwegian superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who clocked 3:58.07 at 16 years 8 months 8 days eight years ago and has since gone on to become a double Olympic champion. Next up, Ruthe, who achieved the record-breaking run 24 days short of his 16th birthday, will doubtless be after the record for the best time ever run by a 16-year-old - the 3:55.44 clocked by Canberra's Myers, who's since gone on to achieve his own remarkable feats. Canberran Myers, now 18, has broken the under-20 indoor world mile record twice this year already, clocking his latest landmark of 3:47.48 in the Wanamaker Mile in New York in February - the first time a teenager had broken 3:48 for the mile, either indoors or outdoors. Now it's Kiwi Ruthe's turn to stagger the athletics world. "This was probably my favourite goal that I've reached. I've definitely enjoyed this one the most, with all the people here supporting me," said the lad from the North island harbourside city of Tauranga. "This has been the most set up for me, so I'm really happy to have gotten this one." Ruthe, like Myers, has been creating athletics headlines all summer, having shattered the age-15 world best for 3000m in November, and having lowered it twice more, most recently clocking 7:56.18 at the New Zealand Championships to become the youngest ever senior male national champ in any discipline.
