Pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis breaks world record again, weeks after Olympics end

Duplantis credits supportive audience and conditions of Polish stadium for record-breaking performance, expresses pride in achieving great success through hard work and patience

Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis broke the world record again, following his fresh world record from the Olympics, with a 6.26-meter jump made in Silesia, Poland in a Diamond League meet.
Duplantis credited the supportive audience and the conditions of the Polish stadium for his record-breaking performance and expressed pride in achieving this great success through hard work and patience.
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Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis
(Photo: Sergei GAPON / AFP)
Duplantis was born and raised in Louisiana but competes for Sweden, his mother's birth country, and he always aims to jump as high as possible and keep pushing himself to do better.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen also set new world records in the men's 3,000 meters (7:17.55) and 1,500m events, surpassing previous records.
Marco Arop of Canada won the men's 800m race with a meet-record time of 1:41.86, holding off the reigning Olympic champion.
Femke Bol avenged her loss at the Paris Olympics by setting a meet record in the 400m hurdles event, while Karsten Warholm set a meet record in the men's 400m hurdles.
Fred Kerley won the 100-meter race, Karsten Warholm triumphed in the 400-meter hurdles, and Femke Bol and Marileidy Paulino won the women's 400-meter and 400-meter hurdles, respectively.
Letsile Tebogo won the 200m with a meet record time of 19.83sec, Femke Bol won the women's 400m hurdles with a meet record time of 52.13 sec, and Karsten Warholm set a meet record in the men's 400m hurdles with a time of 46.95 sec.
Sam Kendricks and Emmanouil Karalis both cleared 6.00 meters in the pole vault competition.
Berihu Aregawi and Yomif Kejelcha claimed silver and bronze, respectively, in the 3,000-meter race.
Tia Clayton won the women's 100 meters, and Marileidy Paulino won the women's 400 meters at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial.
This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq
Sources: NBC News, USA Today, South China Morning Post, CBC, France 24, Jovem Pan, La Razón, La Voz del Interior, The Age, Nine, La Vanguardia, Spin, NDTV, Haber Aktuel, Newsroom Odisha, France Info, India Today, HVG, Essentially Sports, Firstpost.
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