Athletics-After eclipsing 'mythological' Bubka, Duplantis eyes Tokyo gold

[ASFN Admin]

Duplantis, a world silver medallist in Doha last year, set the world record by clearing 6.17m indoors in Poland in February and bettered that by a centimetre in Glasgow the same month. He then went higher than Bubka's outdoor mark of 6.14m, set in 1994, to win gold at the Rome Diamond League meeting in September. World Athletics has not distinguished between indoor and outdoor records in pole vault since 2000.

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