Mondo Duplantis Relishes Win at Lakeside Pole Vault Event and Just Misses World Record
Duplantis cleared 6.21 meters on his first try, while Karalis reached 6.16 meters and both men topped the previous meet record.
- On Thursday, Armand Duplantis won the Diamond League pole vault competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, edging Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis in a gripping battle before more than 5,000 spectators.
- Held at a pop-up venue near the Olympic Museum, both athletes broke the previous meet record of 6.15m, with Duplantis calling the competition the 'greatest pole vaulting competition ever.'
- Duplantis secured victory with a 6.21m jump, his best result since March, while Karalis cleared 6.16m on his second attempt and barely failed at a lifetime best of 6.21m.
- The Olympic champion then made two attempts at a new world record of 6.32m but failed to clear the bar, unable to improve his own world record for the 16th time.
- This event acts as a traditional curtain raiser for the main Athletissima meeting one day later, where Swiss athlete Audrey Werro will compete in the 800 meters chasing track's oldest world record.
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At the athletics event Athletissima in Lausanne, which was part of the Diamond League, the team of Armand Duplantis and Emmanuel Karalis made a special high-altitude competition. The Swede crossed 6.21 m on Thursday on the shores of Lake Geneva, and the Greeks came to 6.16 m. Never before had two pole jumpers dueled at a height of 6.21 m. At the top of it, Duplantis tried to raise the world record to 6.32 m, but failed. Karlis pokerteKaralis ope…
The Toronto Star
Mondo Duplantis relishes win at lakeside pole vault event and just misses world record
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Mondo Duplantis called his victory Thursday in a vibrant lakeside Diamond League event “the greatest pole vaulting competition ever.”
The Swedish pole vault champion fought a Diamond League battle with Greek Emanuel Karalis in Lausanne, and when he won, he failed to break the world record.
The Swede won in front of his great Greek rival in Lausanne, with a bar at 6.21 m, against 6.16 for Emmanouil Karalis. The two men improved the record of the meeting.
It was a Diamond League duel at high altitude. Emmanouil Karalis cleared 6.16, but as so many times before, the Greek had his superior in Armand Duplantis. Mondo tried twice for the world record of 6.32, but had to settle for 6.21.
Finnish spectators did not see Armand Duplantis break the world record.
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