Sweden’s Armand Duplantis poses for {a photograph} as he celebrates after setting a brand new pole vault world report (6.24m) through the Xiamen IAAF Diamond League athletics assembly at Egret Stadium in Xiamen, in China’s japanese Fujian province, on April 20, 2024.
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Armand Duplantis put down a marker forward of this yr’s Paris Olympics because the Swede broke his personal pole vault world report with a 6.24 metres effort within the first Diamond League assembly of the 2024 season on Saturday.
Duplantis bettered his earlier mark of 6.23 metres set on the Eugene Diamond League finale in September, clearing the bar with ease earlier than leaping up off the sponge mat beneath and racing off in celebration at his first outside occasion of the yr.
It was the eighth time that Duplantis broke the world report, and the 24-year-old was the one man to clear six metres on the Egret Stadium.
The Olympic and two-time world outside champion had added a second world indoor title to his spectacular resume in March, and he’s set to move into his second Video games in July and August because the agency favorite.
Australian Torrie Lewis loved a shocking Diamond League debut because the 19-year-old pipped a powerful discipline of American rivals that included Sha’Carri Richardson to assert the ladies’s 200m gold with an effort of twenty-two.96 from lane 9.
Richardson, winner of the 200m bronze eventually yr’s world championships, completed second in 22.99 forward of her compatriots Tamara Clark, Anavia Battle and Twanisha Terry.
World champion Marileidy Paulino earlier captured the primary observe gold of the Diamond League season within the ladies’s 400m, because the Dominican eased house in 50.08 seconds, forward of Natalia Kaczmarek (50.29) and Britton Wilson (51.26).
Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn then set the tempo within the ladies’s 100m hurdles, with the Puerto Rican cruising to victory in 12.45 seconds.