Main-high vault dominator Armand Duplantis has improved his own world record again.
The Olympic champion skipped 6.27 m at the All Star Perche Vault in the French Clermont-Ferrand on Friday and increased its previous record by one centimeter. It is the total eleventh world record of the Swedish high -flyer.
Duplantis, after winning the victory in the competition with 6.02 m, had the best mark on and skipped it in the first attempt.
“I just felt really good,” said the 25-year-old and added: “Sometimes it’s just not. Sometimes there is a lot of hard work behind it, deprivation.” The feeling of jumping world record is “every time crazy. It is a feeling of euphoria, difficult to explain.”
Duplantis had secured the world record for the first time in February 2020 at 6.17 m and has repeatedly improved it by one centimeter. The goal was at least 6.30 m. “I have the feeling that I can do it. Of course, a lot of things have to go together. But I think it is possible,” Duplantis said before the competition in France to the AFP news agency.
In Clermont-Ferrand he took the next step, and he was really surprised by the further entry in the history books of athletics. “What can I say, I came here to do it. I gave everything. The attempt worked really well. I just did it,” said Duplantis.