Duplantis, to break his pole vault record at a rally in Stockholm where Bol reappeared

Swedish Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis will attempt to break the new pole vault world record this Sunday at Meeting in Stockholmwhere the 400 meter hurdles world champion reappears, Femke Bol.

The world champion and current Olympic champion confirmed his form at the beginning of the season, after a winter in which he did not shine as usual (6.05 m, which nevertheless earned him the world indoor title in Glasgow).

After establishing your eighth world record in mid-April when he cleared 6.24 m in his outdoor debut at XiamenDuplantis had two great competitions in Suzhou and Ostravawhere he barely went over 6.25 m on both occasions.

“I’m in good shape and I see this Sunday’s competition as a mini-championship, so there’s still a little pressure,” declared the 24-year-old pole vaulter this Saturday.

Especially since the Stockholm Olympic Stadium is the scene of the largest number of athletic records in the world. However, the last one started more than 25 years ago (men’s 800 meters in 1997 with the Dane Wilson Kipketer).

“It’s been too long,” Duplantis acknowledges. “It’s not easy to beat (world records), but tomorrow I will jump as much as I can.”

Ahead of the Olympic Games, where he is the heavy favorite for gold, Duplantis aims to win his third European title in Rome starting June 7.

After a new winter in which she lowered her 400-meter indoor world record to 49.17, the Dutch Femke Bol reappeared in her favorite discipline: the 400-meter hurdles While her main rival for gold in Paris 2024, the American Sydney McLaughlin -. Levrone, who on Friday achieved the world’s best mark of the year (52.70) almost two years after his last 400, Bol needs to show that he is also in shape two months before the Olympic Games.