Sweden's Duplantis soars 6.17m to break pole vault world record

ByReuters

Published 08/02/2020 at 19:33 GMT

Feb 8 (Reuters) - World silver medallist Mondo Duplantis broke the pole vault world record on Saturday when the American-born Swede soared 6.17 metres on his second attempt at a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Torun in Poland.

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Duplantis broke Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie's record of 6.16 metres set in February 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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