Watch: Armand Duplantis units new 6.22m pole vault document

Armand Duplantis set the world document in pole vault for the sixth time. Picture: Twitter/Athletics Weekly

Clermont-Ferrand, France: Armand Duplantis of Sweden set a brand new world pole vault document of 6.22 metres at an indoor assembly in France on Saturday, describing it as “nearly an out-of-body expertise”.

Olympic champion Duplantis improved his personal document of 6.21m that he set in profitable the world title outside in Oregon final 12 months.

Competing on the All-Star Perche assembly in Clermont-Ferrand, central France organised by 2012 Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie, Duplantis cleared the brand new document at his third try and the delight of the 4,000-strong crowd.

Duplantis, 23, stated: “When you’ve got moments like this, when the power is so excessive, and also you’re taking place there for the document, it seems like levitating, it seems like my physique by no means even touched the bottom the entire soar.

“There’s one thing about it that simply feels overwhelming proper now, and I actually suppose it’s as a result of Renaud means a lot to me, he’s meant a lot to me since I first began, he’s been my largest inspiration, largest idol.

“He actually motivated me, made me consider that I might break the world document. So for me to interrupt the world document right here, his hometown, his competitors that he hosts…”

US-born Duplantis entered the competitors at 5.71m, clearing that peak at his first try.

He handed at 5.81m and managed 5.91m on his second strive earlier than profitable the competitors by clearing 6.01m on his first try earlier than having the bar raised to the document peak.

It was the sixth time that Duplantis has damaged the world document.

He set the primary in Torun in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17m so as to add a centimetre to Lavillenie’s earlier world document of 6.16m that had stood since 2014.

“Every world document feels prefer it brings one thing a bit totally different out of me,” Duplantis stated. “Perhaps the primary one may need been a bit crazier, however this may be quantity two proper now, it’s actually unbelievable.”

He stated re-writing the document books now not left him with any nerves.

“The stress doesn’t actually really feel the identical anymore to me. I’ve proved quite a bit the previous few years, the previous two years particularly, and I do know what sort of jumper I’m, what I’m able to.

“I do know that I’m deserving to be within the spot that I’m.”

Duplantis is giving the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul subsequent month a miss so will concentrate on the outside season and profitable back-to-back world outside titles in Budapest in August.

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