Hysteria as freakish jump breaks world record

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Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis has breached the men's rod vault satellite grounds for the sixth clip successful brainsick scenes astatine an indoor conscionable successful France.

As euphony blasted and spectators clapped the 23-year-old in, helium charged up the runway astatine the All Star Perche conscionable and cleared six metres and 22 centimetres.

Event manager Renaud Lavillenie, the 2012 London Olympics men's rod vault champion, instantly hurtled toward the mat to clasp an ecstatic Duplantis.

Since arriving connected the country and eyeing Lavillenie's satellite grounds acceptable successful 2014, Duplantis has raised the people from 6.16m to 6.22m crossed six record-shattering meets.

"When you person moments similar this, erstwhile the vigor is truthful precocious and you're going down determination for the record, it feels similar levitating, it feels similar my assemblage ne'er adjacent touched the crushed the full jump," Duplantis said.

"Each satellite grounds feels similar it brings thing a spot antithetic retired of me.

"Maybe the archetypal 1 mightiness person been a spot crazier, but this mightiness beryllium fig 2 close now. It's truly unbelievable.

"The unit doesn't truly consciousness the aforesaid anymore to me. I've proved a batch the past fewer years, the past 2 years especially, and I cognize what benignant of jumper I am, what I americium susceptible of. I cognize that I americium deserving to beryllium successful the spot that I am."

Duplantis cleared six metres for the 60th clip astatine the conscionable successful Clermont-Ferrand.

While the men's satellite grounds progressed by lone 2 centimetres betwixt 1994 and 2020, Duplantis has improved it by six centimetres successful the past 3 years.

The USA-born superstar won golden astatine the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and astatine past year's satellite championships successful Oregon.

Australia's Kurtis Marschall, a two-time Commonwealth Games golden medallist, finished 2nd successful the All Star Perche conscionable with a vault of 5.91m.

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