Swedish Armand Duplantis won the pole vault event at the indoor meet of berlin. He jumped over it 6.06mand then failed three times at 6.22 mone centimeter better than his world record.
Olympic (2021), world (2022) and European (2022) champion in the specialty, “Mondo” Duplantis completed his 42nd competition of six meters or morethe second of the winter after his 6.10 m in Uppsala (Sweden) a week ago.
In Berlin, Duplantis passed the first four heights of 5.60m, 5.82m, 5.91 and 6.06m on his first attempt, before going for his world record attempt. He was alone in the fight since Filipino Ernest John Obiena and the Australian Kurtis Marshall they stop at 5.82m. However, he failed to finish any of his three attempts in 6.22-
Duplantis still has two other competitions on his program this winter to try to improve his world record (6.21 m set on July 24, 2022 in Eugene), his stated goal: lievin in a week (February 15) and Clermont-Ferrand ten days later (February 25). Ultimately, it will decide on a possible participation in European Indoor Championships in Istanbul (March 2-5).
Source: La Verdad
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