A new world record has been set. World and Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis added another centimetre to his own world pole vault record*, clearing 6.31m at the Mondo Classic – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting – in Uppsala on Thursday (12).
Following with his previous perormance, the pole vault superstar had no problems on his way to his record-breaking performance, opening with 5.65m before scaling 5.90m and 6.08m at the first time of asking.
In Second position, Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen finished with 6.00m, his second six-metre vault of the season.
Zachery Bradford, Sam Kendricks and Kurtis Marschall all cleared 590m to place third, fourth and fifth respectively.