Athletics “Renaud Lavillenie is no longer a world record holder in the pole vault. The French athletics star, who had the best world performance of all time since February 2014, when he jumped 6.16 m in Donetsk under the eyes of former record holder Sergei Bubka, passes his hand to the star rising specialty: Armand Duplantis, 20 years old. The latter, although born and raised in the United States (in Lafayette, Louisiana), competes under the colors of Sweden, his mother’s country.
Duplantis, nicknamed Mondo in the narrow circle of athletics, passed the 6.17 m barrier on Saturday at the indoor meeting in Torun, Poland. The performance of the young man with “normal” physique – 68 kilos for 1.81 m – is not really a surprise. Tuesday, in a meeting in Germany, he attacked the Lavillenie record and failed by nothing.
The child acrobat
Armand Duplantis presents the standard CV of the prodigy of his discipline, to which he was initiated by his p
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