Armand Duplantis signed another great performance in Hengelo

Swedish Armand Duplantiscurrent Olympic and world champion, will have to wait for a new opportunity to set a new pole vault world record, after failing this Sunday at the meeting of Hengelo (Netherlands) in his three attempts to surpass 6.23 meters.

More than a centimeter more than the 6.22 set by the 23-year-old Scandinavian pole vaulter last November in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand as a new universal note.

Record where Armand Duplantis fell last week in his first competition on the course, winning the Los Angeles meeting with a “discreet” 5.91 meters after breaking the bar in his three attempts at 6.01 meters.

An event that allowed the American KC Lightfoot to seize the first place in the world ranking of the year from the Swede after jumping 6.07 meters on Friday in Nashville (United States).

First place barely lasted two days for the North American pole vaulter, after seeing how Duplantis regained the lead in the table, winning the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, the seventh round of the gold continental circuit, after jumping 6.11 meters in a Dutch town.

But Duplantis, ambitious as ever, was not satisfied with achieving the best world mark of the year and asked to set the bar at 6.23 meters, which would mean a new world record if it were broken.

Record mark that the Swede will have to wait to achieve on another occasion, after failing in his three attempts.

If in the first Duplantis could not even get up, in the second he fell below the bar, while in the third and last the Scandinavian pole vaulter knocked the bar with his feet in the middle of the climb.

A failed attempt that will not stop the Swede from continuing to try as much as possible, as was the case throughout last year or during the winter, knowing that he has more than 6.22 meters in his legs which he holds as a world record .

But Armand Duplantis was not the only star at the FBK Games, where two great stars of Dutch athletics also shone with their victories, sifan hassantriple medalist at the Tokyo Games, and Femke Bol, the European “queen” of 400 meters.

Hassan, who on Saturday already won the 10.00 meters on the same Hengelo track with a time of 29:27.80 minutes, the best world record of the year, showed his versatility by winning this Sunday’s 1,500m final with a record of 3: 58.12 minutes.

A more than impressive time, but one that came close to the stratospheric 3:49.11 set by Kenyan Faith Kypyegon on Friday as the new 1,500 world record in Florence.

Similarly, Femke Bol did not need to come close to her best time, after winning the 400 hurdles on Friday in Florence with a time of 52.43 seconds, this Sunday she won the 400 sprint with a mark of 50.11.

“I didn’t think about the time, because I was focused on winning. For this outdoor season, I was focused on the obstacles and they ran well. That’s the most important thing,” said Bol, who after winning bronze at the Tokyo Games and silver at the Eugene World Championships, this summer he will seek gold in the 400 hurdles at the Budapest World Championships.

An appointment in which he will try to revalidate the world title won last year by the American Grant Holloway, who won the final of the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 13.03 seconds, two hundredths more than the best world record of the course owned -proprietary Holloway himself has a 13.01.

Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the current world runner-up, did not disappoint either, clearing a best attempt of 2.00 meters in a high jump final where the Ukrainian failed in all three of her attempts at 2.05, her personal best .

A personal record achieved by the very young Italian jumper Mattia Furlani, only 18 years old, who after surprising the world by signing a windy 8.44 meters just two weeks ago, this Sunday reached 8.24 meters against Angel wind.