Duplantis set a new pole vault world record with 6.22 meters!

He Swedish Armand Duplantis (23 years old) established this Saturday, with a record of 6.22 meters, a new pole vault world record by winning the “All Star of Pole” meeting debated in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand.

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Duplantis, current Olympic champion of the specialty, surpassed the previous universal record he himself held at a height of 6.21 by one centimeter from July 24, 2022, when he was crowned outdoor world champion in Eugene (United States).

After failing his first two attempts at 6.22, the 23-year-old Swedish pole vaulter cleared the bar on his third attempt by jumping where he Armand Duplantis He showed that he still has room to beat the new record

Evolution of the world record from the 6.00 m step

6.00m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 13, 1985 in Paris
6.01m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1986 in Moscow
6.03m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), June 23, 1987 in Prague
6.05m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 in Bratislava
6.06m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 10, 1988 in Nice (France)
6.07m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), May 6, 1991 in Shizuoka (Japan)
6.08m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 in Moscow
6.09m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1991 in Formia (Italy)
6.10m: Sergei Bubka (USSR), August 5, 1991 in Malmö (Sweden)
6.11m: Sergei Bubka (UKR), June 13, 1992 in Dijon (France)
6.12m: Sergei Bubka (UKR), August 30, 1992 in Padua (Italy)
6.13m: Sergei Bubka (UKR), September 19, 1992 in Tokyo
6.14m: Sergei Bubka (UKR), July 31, 1994 in Sestriere (Italy)
6.16m: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA), February 15, 2014 in Donetsk (Ukraine) indoors
6.17m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 8, 2020 in Torun (Poland) indoors
6.18m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 15, 2020 in Glasgow (UK) indoors
6,19 m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), March 7, 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) indoors
6.20m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), March 20, 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) indoors
20′: Armand Duplantis (SWE), July 24, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon
6.22m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 25, 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand (France)