Sweden’s Armand Duplantis set a brand new world document of 6.25m after successful gold within the males’s pole vault.
The 24-year-old, who had secured successive Olympic titles by clearing six metres, set an Olympic document of 6.10m together with his subsequent try.
And he improved his world better of 6.24m, that he set in April, by one centimetre at his third and closing try, to the delight of the gang within the Stade de France.
The 2-time world champion has now damaged the document on 9 events.
Duplantis, the primary athlete to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956, raced to his family and friends after breaking the world document.
He then launched into a lap of the monitor draped within the Swedish flag, as Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ blasted out of the stadium sound system.
“I haven’t processed how implausible that second was,” mentioned Duplantis. “It’s a kind of issues that you just don’t actually really feel is actual. It is such an out of physique expertise.
“The most important dream since a child was to interrupt the world document on the Olympics, and I’ve been in a position to try this in entrance of essentially the most ridiculous crowd I’ve ever competed in entrance of.
“The get together goes to be fairly massive. Not that a lot sleep, a number of partying, a very good time.”
American Sam Kendricks cleared 5.95m to take silver, whereas Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis secured bronze on countback with a better of 5.90m.