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Duplantis and Lavillenie share honours as Ultimate Garden Clash breaks lockdown

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World pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis and London 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie finished

Duplantis, who twice broke the world record earlier this year, raising it to 6.18m, had seemed keen to

Lavillenie said.Mondo Duplantis and Renaud Lavillenie shared the honours in today's self-styled Ultimate

2016 pole vault champion Thiago Braz da Silva and world 200m champion Noah Lyles.At the halfway point Duplantis


Duplantis, Lavillenie and Kendricks to clash in garden pole vault competition

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World record holder Armand Duplantis, Olympic gold medallist Renaud Lavillenie and two-time world champion

of the top four vaulters in the world, is due to take place tomorrow, weather permitting.It will pit Duplantis

I'm ecstatic to be able to compete again, especially against Sam and Renaud," Duplantis said.



Duplantis raises $3,000 to help coronavirus battle after auctioning bib

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The bib worn by Swedish star Armand Duplantis when he broke the world pole vault record in Poland in

Duplantis auctioned the bib from his world record-breaking performance at the World Athletics Indoor

$500/€460).Sweden has reported more than 10,000 cases of the COVID-19 virus and over 900 deaths.Armand Duplantis

I hope that at least in this modest way I will help in the fight against this pandemic," Duplantis told




Rojas breaks 16-year-old world indoor triple jump record in Madrid

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Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas set a world indoor triple jump record at the Meeting Villa de Madrid, the final World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting of the season, tonight. 

year's World Athletics Indoor Tour following the two pole vault marks established by Sweden's Armand Duplantis



Duplantis just misses third world pole vault record in Liévin

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Armand Duplantis narrowly failed in his ambition of setting a third consecutive world pole vault record

closest thing to opposition as he kept the competition going by clearing 5.90 at his third attempt.As Duplantis

held by fellow American Jenn Suhr.She had to settle for victory with a clearance of 4.83.Afterwards, Duplantis

Duplantis also thanked the Arena Stade Couvert crowd, saying he "really felt" their energy."

, where the seventh and final event of this season’s series will take place on Friday (February 21).Duplantis


Duplantis in search of world record hat-trick in Liévin

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Armand Duplantis, who has twice improved the world pole vault record in the space of a week, will seek

Armand Duplantis, pictured after raising his pole vault world record to 6.18 in Glasgow on Sunday, will

because I think me and Usain Bolt are very different, we’re in different events, we’re different people," Duplantis

an effort of 4.74m, and three years later compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva took the mark on to 4.89m.If Duplantis

for the individual overall winner of each event in the World Indoor Tour has already been claimed by Duplantis

edition in Nanjing has been postponed until 2021 because of concerns over the coronavirus epidemic.While Duplantis


Mike Rowbottom: Liévin back in the big league and looking for another record du monde from Mondo

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When it was built in the mid-1980s, the Stade Couvert Régional in Liévin was billed as the largest and most modern sports hall in Europe. In 1987 it hosted the European Athletics Indoor Championships, after which its annual Pas-de-Calais meeting provided the sport with some of its outstanding moments for more than 20 years.

been a particularly arresting edition.That has been due not wholly but very substantially to Mondo Duplantis

your world record bonus and set the bar a fraction higher…Like Sergei Bubka, or Yelena Isinbayeva, Duplantis

But that, of course, is not how sport works.Should Duplantis, who has been vaulting since he was four-years-old

the Swedish national paper Aftonbladet, which devoted the first seven pages of its sports section to Duplantis


Duplantis breaks men's pole vault world record for second week in a row

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Men’s pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis showed his new world best was no fluke, breaking

“There was such great energy the crowd was giving me and I really thrive off that," said Duplantis.

“It's unfair to think I'll break it every time I compete,” added Duplantis.



Mike Rowbottom: World at Mondo’s feet after his world pole vault record arrives early

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For some time I’ve been wondering who Armand Duplantis – freshly established pole vault world record

progression, is still revered as one of the great moments in the national team’s history.Thankfully Duplantis

Nor is he likely to have to do so.Renaud Lavillenie, whose 2014 world record of 6.16m Duplantis bettered

I don’t know if he was ever a dark horse.”In July 2018 I interviewed the then 18-year-old Duplantis in

Duplantis was simply responding with honesty.

Duplantis, meanwhile, is set to become one of the main faces of athletics for a decade or more.


Armand Duplantis sets new pole vault world record

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Sweden's Armand Duplantis set a pole vault world record in Torun in Poland tonight, clearing 6.17 metres

It's so crazy because my whole life I wanted that moment right there," Duplantis said."