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Pushing the limits! Setting new records! This is the truest description of Duplantis.

Yesterday, at the World Athletics Diamond League Silesia Station, Swedish pole vault world record holder Duplantis returned from vacation.He won the gold medal with an amazing score of 6.26 meters, breaking his own previous score of 6.25 meters set at the Paris Olympics.

The pole vault world record was once considered one of the most difficult records to challenge in track and field, until Duplantis appeared...

• On July 31, 1994, at the International Track and Field Competition held in Sestriere, Italy, Ukrainian pole vaulter Bubka clearedThe 6.14-meter horizontal bar improved the men's outdoor pole vault world record, which he had held for nearly two years, by one centimeter.
• 20 years later,In February 2014, the London Olympic champion, Frenchman Lavigne6.16 meters broke Bubka's men's pole vault indoor world record. Then there was another few years of waiting.
• In the early morning of February 9, 2020, at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, Duplantis emerged asThe score of 6.17 meters set a new world record.
• On August 5, 2024, in the pole vault final of the Paris Olympics, Duplantis crossed the6.25m crossbarThis is the ninth time that the world record has been broken.20 days later, he improved this result to6.26 meters.

According to statistics,The top ten results in the history of men's pole vaulting were all created by Duplantis. Every jump is a challenge to gravity, and every landing is accompanied by thunderous applause.

(CCTV Sports)