Armand Duplantis sparkles. The Swedish pole vaulter improved on the best performance of the season with a jump to 6.12m at the Ostrava meeting in the Czech Republic. The reigning Olympic and world champion had achieved 6.11m in Hengelo in the Netherlands in early June.
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis continued his summer progress by bringing the best performance of the season to 6.12 m at the meeting in Ostrava (Czech Republic) on Tuesday. The reigning Olympic and world champion had so far cleared 6.11m at best, in Hengelo (Netherlands) in early June, during his first three summer outings in 2023. The only pole vaulter above six meters on Tuesday, the 23-year-old Swede passed 6.12m on the first try, before failing three times at 6.17m. His only failure of the contest came on his first attempt at 5.90m.
Tina Sutej victorious in the ladies
Duplantis, who took the pole vault world record to 6.22m in February in Clermont-Ferrand, is now expected by the Swedish public in Stockholm on Sunday. In the same competition and with a jump of 5.60m, the Frenchman Thibaut Collet settled for sixth place, while Margot Chevrier took third place in the women’s category with a jump of 4.54m. It was Tina Sutej who won the women’s competition with a jump of 4.64 m.