Sweden’s Armand Duplantis set a brand new world file of 6.25m after successful gold within the males’s pole vault.
The 24-year-old, who had secured successive Olympic titles by clearing six metres, set an Olympic file of 6.10m together with his subsequent try.
And he improved his world better of 6.24m, that he set in April, by one centimetre at his third and closing try, to the delight of the group within the Stade de France.
The 2-time world champion has now damaged the file on 9 events.
Duplantis, the primary athlete to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956, raced to his family and friends after breaking the world file.
He then launched into a lap of the monitor draped within the Swedish flag, as Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ blasted out of the stadium sound system.
“I haven’t processed how improbable that second was,” mentioned Duplantis. “It’s a type of issues that you simply don’t actually really feel is actual. It is such an out of physique expertise.
“The largest dream since a child was to interrupt the world file on the Olympics, and I’ve been in a position to try this in entrance of probably the most ridiculous crowd I’ve ever competed in entrance of.
“The get together goes to be fairly massive. Not that a lot sleep, a whole lot of partying, time.”
American Sam Kendricks cleared 5.95m to take silver, whereas Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis secured bronze on countback with a better of 5.90m.