New world record: Duplantis raises its roof another centimeter

The Swede rises to 6.18 meters the world record in Glasgow, just a week after his first record.

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  A world record holder of the pole away from the stereotype
  

Swedish Armand Duplantis I beat this Saturday at the Glasgow meeting his own world pole record with a jump of 6.18 meters, one centimeter above the mark he obtained seven days ago in Torun (Poland).

The young pertiguista, of 20 years, premiere your status as world record holder with your second world record in this World Indoor Tour meeting.

Seven days after the spectacular jump with which the world record is taken from the French Renaud Lavillenie (6.16 m in 2014), Duplantis was left alone after passing the list located 6 meters from the ground. No one could accompany him at that point, and directly ordered the bar to rise to 6.18, resolved to break his world record. I got it at first.

His first jump as world record holder, at this rally in Glasgow, was 5.50 meters, height that Mondo Super without problems. To skip the next one, 5.75, I needed two attempts. Then everything was cleaner: 5.84, 6.00 and, finally, 6.18. The American Sam Kendricks, current world champion, finished second with 5.75, the same brand as the Belgian Ben Broeders.

Age records

Duplantis is familiar with the best global brands by ages since he was seven years old. His father, the American pertiguista Greg Duplantis (who reached over 5.80 meters) quickly initiated him into the discipline and with six years he was already rising over 1.67 meters. He got his first first universal record by ages when he jumped 2.33 meters with seven years. From there the best world brands were followed by ages: At age eight he jumped 2.89; at nine, 3.20; with ten, 3.86; with 11, 3.91 and with 12, 3.97 on the indoor track.

Between the ages of 13 and 16, their brands launching the pole were not world records by age. Salt 4.15 with thirteen, 4.75 at fourteen, 5.30 at fifteen and 5.51 at sixteen, to resume, the next year, by jumping 5.90 with 17, your collection of record brands.

When he turned 18, he became the youngest member of the six-meter club by proclaiming himself European champion in Berlin 2018 with a jump of 6.05. I returned to overcome, with 19 years, the wall of the six (6.00) and was absolute world runner-up. A week ago, with only 20 years, I dethroned the French Renaud Lavillenie as absolute world record holder of Prtiga.

Born on November 10, 1999 in Lafayette (Louisiana, USA), Duplantis enjoys an enviable genetic background. Not only from the father. His mother, Helena, was a heptathlete and volleyball player. No wonder that, as he himself recalled, beating the absolute world record was already a goal when he was three or four years old.