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08 February 2020The Swedish Armand Duplantis highest of all. He passed the bar at 6.17 meters and set the new pole vault world record. The 20-year-old astist native of Lafayette, in the United States, but a Swedish citizen thanks to his mother, established the new record in Torun in Poland on the occasion of the fourth stage of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Armand Duplantis had already won the silver medal at the 2019 World Cup in Doha. Tonight in Poland he added an inch to the previous limit set in 2014 in Donetsk by the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie. The Swedish athlete exceeded 6.17 meters on the second attempt, the sixth jump of the race.

From February 21, 1986 to February 21, 1993 the world record of the auction was brought from 5.94 to 6.12 meters by a single athlete: the Soviet, then Ukrainian, Sergey Bubka who is now also a member of the International Olympic Committee . Now the world high jump has a new leader.