2024-02-21 20:12:34
The Swede, who has broken the world record seven times, will try to improve it once again on Thursday.
Published on 21/02/2024 21:12
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Armand Duplantis will attempt to improve his pole vault world record, Thursday February 22, at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), one week before the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (United Kingdom). ) and five months before the Paris Olympic Games. A year ago, the Swede took it to 6.22 m on the Auvergne jump. He has since increased it by one centimeter, to 6.23 m.
“6.24 m is the goal. But there are steps to take before that”, he confided to AFP. Duplantis believes that this bar is “In [s]”it’s cordes”even if he did not cross the six-meter mark in 2024. “I think my first two competitions of the year did not reflect my real form”he continues, still describing these first failures as “frustrants”.
Towards an eighth world record?
The pole vaulter describes two very distant reasons to justify these poor performances. “The first, in Kazakhstan [le 27 janvier], the journey was difficult, and my legs were really deads, explains Duplantis, who failed to pass the six meters for his return to school for the first time since 2019. On the contrary, the competition after, in Sweden [le 6 février], I felt really good, in great shape, but I was a little too pumped up.”
Pole vault: Duplantis towards a new world record
7 times record holder, Armand Duplantis returns to the lands of Lavillenie for the All Star Perche to try to break a new record. While recovering, former record holder Renaud Lavillenie will try to qualify for the Paris Games. – ()
Not worried, the reigning Olympic champion has since assured that he has regained his energy in training. To the point of improving his world record in Auvergne? “It’s a track on which you feel comfortablehe testifies. It’s a setup I jumped high into.” To the point of breaking his own world record an eighth time, at the age of 24?
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