Swedish Armand Duplantis, pole vault world record holder, began the defense of his world crown by leading the qualifying round and reaching the final with a best jump of 5.75, a discreet mark for his intention to beat the world record of he holds with 6.22.
Despite his youth -23 years-, Duplantis collect trophies and medals at home. The first was gold at the U18 World Cup in Cali (Colombia) in 2015, followed by Olympic gold in Tokyo and victories at the outdoor (Eugene, 2022) and indoor (Belgrade, 2022) World Cups, as well as at the outdoor Europeans (Berlin 2018 and Munich 2022) and internal (Torun 2021).
Achieving a new gold in the world, and doing it if possible with a record, is the goal of Duplantis, who took the qualification almost as a practice to access the final without problems in 5.75 as the best of all the participants.
American Christopher Nilsen, silver medalist in Eugene 2022, and Filipino Ernest Obiena, bronze, will also be in the final along with Australian Kurtis Marschall, French Thibaut Collet and Ethan Cormont, Turkish Ersu Sasma, Italian Claudio Stecchi, Ben Broeders from Belgium, Tao Zhong from China, Sondre Guttormsen from Norway and Gillian Ladwig from Germany.
Source: La Verdad
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