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Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for 12th time at Diamond League in Stockholm
Olympic champion Armand Duplantis has broken the pole vault world record for a 12th time at the Diamond League meet in his home country, Sweden.
On his first attempt, the 25-year-old cleared the bar which was set at 6.28m, to a raucous celebration in Stockholm's Olympic Stadium, as he clinched a world record in his native country for the first time.
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Duplantis secured his second Olympic gold medal in Paris last year by surpassing 6.25m, what was then a world-record height. He cleared that effort by one centimetre at the Diamond League meet in Poland in August last year and added another centimetre to his world record at the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Clermont-Ferrand.
Each of Duplantis' world records have been achieved by a one-centimetre margin. He first achieved the feat in February 2020 with a height of 6.17m.
He clinched his first Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021 with an effort of 6.02m, which was 16cm short of the world record he held at the time, as he failed to clear 6.19m in the Japanese capital.
Sunday's world-record clearance means Duplantis is now 12cm clear of Renaud Lavillenie, who held the world record before him with 6.16m, set at the Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine in 2014.
Australia's Kurtis Marschall finished second in Stockholm on Sunday after clearing 5.90m, while Menno Vloon of the Netherlands and Lavillenie recorded a height of 5.80m.
