BERLIN (GERMANY), July 25 (dpa/EP) –
Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record at the Oregon World Championships with an incredible jump of 6.21 meters on the last day of competition to claim his first gold at this championship.
The 22-year-old Swede had already secured the gold medal by setting what was, until then, the world record, with a jump of 6.06. Once the bar was raised to 6.21, he missed his first attempt and nearly fell off the canvas on the way down. However, his second attempt was successful and he capped off the final day of the Championship at Hayward Field.
The Olympic champion in Tokyo, already proclaimed indoor world champion in the event held in Belgrade this year, with a mark of 6.20, he hung gold in Eugene thus beating his own mark and establishing his fifth world record. American Christopher Nilsen won silver thanks to his jump of 5.94, while Philippine Ernest John Obiena took bronze with the same height.
Meanwhile, Nigerian Tobi Amusan broke her own world record in the women’s 100m hurdles final to win gold, the first for Nigeria, on the final day of the Eugene World Cup.
Amusan crossed the finish line in a windy 12.06 seconds, beating her own mark of 12.12 that she had set less than two hours earlier, when she broke American Kendra Harrison’s record of 12.20 in 2016. However, a tailwind above the limit of 2 meters per second in the final meant his world record from the semi-finals would be the one left standing.
Jamaican Britany Anderson beat Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn for silver as they both clocked 12.23, while American Kendra Harrison, who would have finished last, was disqualified from the race.