Seventh World File in Pole Vault Damaged by Armand Duplantis, Girls’s 5000m File Smashed by Gudaf Tsegay

Armand Duplantis, the pole vault athlete, achieved his seventh world report on the Diamond League Closing. After clearing six meters, 23 centimeters, Duplantis celebrated by working over the stands together with his arms raised within the air. This was the second world report set on the season-ending meet, with Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay additionally breaking the ladies’s 5,000-meter report. Duplantis wanted just one try to clear 6.23m, a centimeter greater than his earlier report. His historic leap positioned him far forward of Ernest John Obiena, who completed in second place.

Duplantis expressed his pleasure after setting the world report and expressed hope to attain even larger heights in his profession. Tsegay, the ladies’s 5,000-meter report breaker, took practically 5 seconds off the earlier report and narrowly missed breaking the 14-minute barrier. The efforts of each athletes have helped to decrease the ladies’s 5,000m report by practically 11 seconds over the previous three years.