Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for 13th time

Armand Duplantis collapsed nan men's rod vault world grounds for a 13th clip - and 3rd this twelvemonth - pinch a clearance of 6.29m astatine nan Hungarian Grand Prix.

The 25-year-old double Olympic and world champion cleared 6.28m at nan Stockholm Diamond League gathering successful June.

But he surpassed that fig pinch his 2nd effort successful Budapest connected Tuesday.

Duplantis first collapsed nan world record, past held by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie for six years, successful February 2020 pinch a 6.17m clearance successful Poland.

His trademark is to advancement nan grounds successful one-centimetre increments.

Duplantis missed his first effort astatine 6.11m, pinch Greece's Emmanouil Karalis retiring aft failing doubly astatine nan aforesaid height. The Swede past had nan barroom raised to effort for a caller record, which he successfully completed, contempt rattling nan barroom somewhat connected his 2nd effort.

Duplantis ran consecutive to nan crowd to observe pinch his family and partner Desire Inglander.

On Saturday, he competes astatine nan Silesia Diamond League successful Poland, wherever he besides collapsed nan world grounds past year.

Duplantis will besides bid to go nan 2nd man, aft Sergey Bubka, to triumph 3 successive world outdoor rod vault titles erstwhile he competes successful Tokyo adjacent month.

Between 1984 and 1994, Ukraine's Bubka collapsed nan outdoor world grounds 17 times and nan indoor people 18.