Sweden’s Armand Duplantis has damaged the pole vault world report once more on Sunday, June 15, 2025, at Stockholm Diamond League meet. Photograph, nevertheless, reveals Duplantis competing on Could 3, 2025 in Shanghai/Keqiao Diamond League athletics assembly in Keqiao, Shaoxing in China. | (Photograph by Pedro Pardo / AFP)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish double Olympic pole vault champion Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis elevated his personal world report once more on Sunday, clearing 6.28 metres to the delight of the house crowd on the Stockholm Diamond League meet.
With victory within the occasion already assured, Duplantis broke the world report for the twelfth time as he sailed over the bar on the first try to enhance on his 6.27m effort at Clermont-Ferrand in February.
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The 25-year-old ripped off his shirt in celebration and raced down the monitor in entrance of jubilant spectators on the Olympic stadium constructed for the 1912 Video games.
“It’s a magical feeling, it’s arduous to clarify,” mentioned Duplantis, who had not earlier than damaged the report in Sweden.
“I wished this so unhealthy. I wished to do that in entrance of everyone right here in Stockholm.
“It felt like actually one thing particular within the crowd right now and I knew that everyone actually wished to see it too.
“It’ll be one of many best reminiscences for me, I believe, in my profession.”
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Duplantis notched up his thirty seventh victory in 41 Diamond League outings, ending nicely forward of Australia’s Kurtis Marschall who managed a better of 5.90m.
The US-born Duplantis was in a category of his personal in one other punishing show of vaulting of the very best order, three days after a stellar show in Oslo.
“I saved saying it was the one factor I used to be lacking within the accolades, to interrupt a report in Sweden,” he mentioned.
“I’ve checked off just about the whole lot now.”
Duplantis is the heavy favorite for a 3rd successive world championship gold in Tokyo later this 12 months. He’s additionally a three-time indoor world champion.
He first broke the world report in 2020 when he surpassed the 6.16m mark set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie.
Duplantis intends to push the bar even increased after his Stockholm exploits.
“I’m going to leap increased. There’s not a lot between me and 6.30, technically. It’s just some centimetres. I’m only a excellent day away from it,” he mentioned.
Hometown runner Andreas Almgren fed off the raucous ambiance to set a brand new European report of 12min 44.27sec to win the lads’s 5,000m.
Benjamin and Alfred on type
Olympic champion Rai Benjamin edged out Alison dos Santos to win the lads’s 400m hurdles, with Karsten Warlhom a distant third.
Warholm triumphed within the rarely-run 300km hurdles on his residence monitor in Oslo on Thursday, however Benjamin produced a world-leading time of 46.54sec over 400m.
“I believe on Thursday I bought a little bit too excited however I felt good right now although I used to be drained,” mentioned Benjamin.
Julien Alfred gained the ladies’s 100m in 10.75sec, the second quickest time of the 12 months. It was solely the Olympic gold medallist’s second race of the season following her victory in Oslo.
Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith took second (10.93) forward of Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith (11.00).
Two-time Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol gained the ladies’s 400m hurdles in a season’s greatest time of 52.11sec. She completed forward of American Dalilah Muhammad (52.91) and Panama’s Gianna Woodruff (53.99).
“I’m not in my greatest form but so to take the victory is very good,” mentioned Bol.
“A race isn’t the identical as coaching and it is just my third race of the season… however I’m beginning to really feel the hurdles higher each race and moving into race form.
“It’s such a excessive degree for the time being within the hurdles so I’m very excited going ahead in the direction of the world championships.”
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