Sweden's Armand Duplantis improved on his own men's pole vault world record to 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in Clermont-Ferrand, France - the 11th time that the Olympic and world champion has broken the world record in his career.
The 25-year-old secured victory at the event with a clearance over 6.02m before he attempted to improve his record mark, set in August, by one centimetre. And he did so with his first attempt, five years after breaking the record for the first time with a height of 6.17m in February 2020.
Duplantis improved the world record to 6.25m when winning a second successive Olympic title at the Paris 2024 Games last summer and then went a centimetre higher in late August in Poland - the third occasion he improved his mark in 2024. His first world record, which he achieved aged 20, beat a mark set by France's Renaud Lavillenie that had stood for nearly six years.
He has continued to progress the record in one-centimetre increments ever since, while securing 10 major international titles in the process. In Paris, Duplantis became the first man to retain the Olympic pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956, while in 2025 he will have the opportunity to complete hat-tricks of gold medals at both the indoor and outdoor world championships.
