Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis broke his personal world file on Friday on the All Star Pole Vault in Clermont-Ferrand, France after which promoted one other sort of file. After securing victory within the competitors by clearing a bar at 6.07m, Duplantis then took goal on the world file, elevating the bar to six.27 metres and clearing it on the first try. “I just felt really good,” the vaulter often known as “Mondo” stated. “What can I say, I came here to do it. I put everything in place to do it. The run-up worked really well. I just did it.”
“Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s not, but there’s a lot of hard work, hardship, bad days, good days, everything in between that gets you to the easier moments,” he stated, including that breaking the world file remained exhilarating.
“It’s always special. It’s a crazy feeling every time. It’s like a feeling of euphoria. It’s hard to explain.”
It was the eleventh time he had damaged the file by one centimetre since first claiming it with a leap of 6.16m in February 2020.
Duplantis made certain that his music “Bop” — launched simply in time for the meet — was enjoying within the enviornment.
“That was my song that was playing,” the breathless Duplantis stated instantly after the leap. “When I made this song a couple of months ago, I thought this wold be a perfect song to jump to here. That’s why I rushed it out.”
It was “playing in the background, everything, exactly as I’d imagined it in my head, so we can’t complain,” he stated.
“I thought maybe I wasn’t going to be serious about jumping on my own song. It seemed almost funny to me. But when I heard it on the speakers, I thought it sounded good. I thought it sounded really good and it put me in a good frame of mind,’ he added at the press conference.
But the Louisiana-born athlete declined to sing.
“Now my voice is tousled as a result of I’ve been yelling,” he said
This is the second time that Duplantis, 25, has improved his mark in Clermont-Ferrand. He jumped 6.22m in the event in February 2023.
“I’m going to get pleasure from this proper now I’m going to have an excellent time tonight and revel in it,” he said.
‘I just love it here’
Duplantis had set the previous record of 6.26 metres at a Diamond League meeting in Chorzow, Poland on 25 August 2024.
That was just a few weeks after he earned Olympic gold in Paris with his ninth world record of 6.25.
On Friday, Duplantis and Emmanouil Karalis, the Olympic bronze medallist, both cleared 6.02m. The Greek jumper then decided “to not take dangers” after feeling cramps and withdrew.
Duplantis broke the tie by clearing 6.07m and immediately raised the bar 20cm.
The All Star Pole Vault meeting was the second of the season for Duplantis, who made his return to competition in Berlin on 14 February by jumping 6.10m.
He had opted to compete in Clermont and skip the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands on March 6-9.
“I simply like it right here,” Duplantis said. “I like the environment right here. I leap rather well right here. Everyone jumps rather well right here. This is why I did not go to Europe.”
He will jump again on March 13 in Uppsala, Sweden, in a meeting he is organising, before going to the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in China on March 21-23.
Asked when he’ll break 6.30, Duplantis answered “28, 29” first.
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