Mondo Duplantis in Uppsala (© AFP / Getty Images)
World and Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis added another centimetre to his own world pole vault record*, clearing 6.31m at the Mondo Classic - a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting - in Uppsala on Thursday (12).
The pole vault superstar had no failures on his way to his record-breaking performance, opening with 5.65m before scaling 5.90m and 6.08m at the first time of asking.
Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen finished second with 6.00m, his second six-metre vault of the season.
Zachery Bradford, Sam Kendricks and Kurtis Marschall all cleared 590m to place third, fourth and fifth respectively.
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*Subject to the usual ratification procedure
