There are several reasons why Armand Duplantis is not a world pole vaulter record holder. But none is valid, because this 20-year-old boy is from Saturday, in the Polish city of Torun, within the international indoor track circuit, recordman of the specialty with 6.17. He buried the capicúa (6.16) that the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie , his friend and a kind of mentor, from an elder brother, had obtained, on February 15, 2014, in Donetsk, in the native Ukraine of Sergei Bubka . His contest was very clean and brief. The first attempt was 5.52, 5.72, 5.92 and 6.01. And the second, 6.17.
We said that there are some reasons, all false, so that Duplantis is not a world record holder. For starters, the boy doesn't seem like a pertiguist. Actually, he doesn't even look like an athlete. This year has gained some weight. But it still lacks a homologous muscular definition to that of its rivals, and is quite loaded on its back, shrinking its 1.83 erect. It would be said soft, fragile ... Unable to hold a five-meter-long and two-kilogram artifact freehand during the race, and to exert the necessary force to bend it in order to gain momentum to attack the bar.
To continue, although there is an occasional case, he is too young for a discipline like the pole. It's true that Sergei Bubka broke his first world record at those same 20 years. But it was Bubka, nothing less. Bubka, the great universal and all-time pole reference. And it did not jump 6.17, but 5.85, extended the same year from 1984 to 5.85; 5.88; 5.90 and 5.94. It exceeded six meters a year later.
Duplantis, who already tried the record a few days ago in Düsseldorf, where he jumped six meters, the divine border, becomes, and in the Olympic year, the current phenomenon of athletics. An attractive figure for unusual, receiving all the sympathy without dykes that inspire the kids, and all the unreserved admiration that arouse geniuses. We may wait for new and upcoming wonders, because the early monarch plans to jump, in the remainder of the indoor season, in Glasgow (day 15), Lievin (19) and Clermont-Ferrand (23).
Family of pertiguistas
Duplantis has dual citizenship. He is a Swede born in the United States, in Lafayette (Louisiana). If the children come with a bread under his arm, he did it with a pole, because his father, Greg, an American, was a good specialist, with a mark of 5.80 in 1993 (and his maternal grandmother jumped 3, 80 in 1958). His mother, Helene Hedlund, former Swedish heptathlete (5,314 points in 1983), to which Armand is very close, is the reason that the new record holder has adopted that nationality. Swedish athletics, which has illuminated numerous stars, currently has in Duplantis the largest of them, heir to the 15 male world record holders known to the Nordic country. One of them also pole. Kjell Isaksson broke the world record three times in 1972. He left it at 5.59.
Duplantis, the antithesis of the flammable and outgoing athlete in his jubilation and his celebrations, states that jumping is for him something natural, almost instinctive (genetic?). His progression has been amazing and he could not help but announce the record. Some data: jumped 5.30 at age 15; 5.51 at 16; 5.90 at 17. At 18 he rose to 6.05, junior world record (sub-20 is said now), of course, and was European champion. Last year, at 19, he only reached six meters and was world runner-up in Doha in his duel with American Sam Kendricks, both with 5.97.
Indoor brands have been considered absolute world records for a few years if they are better than outdoor brands. The case has only happened twice, and both in the pole, with Lavillenie and Duplantis. Interestingly, Bubka also had a better brand indoors than outdoors (6.15 by 6.14). But then the records were separated. Those 6.14, achieved in 1994 at Sestriere altitude, where they were rewarded with a Ferrari Testarossa, remain the best open pit brand.
Duplantis almost looks out to a superhuman record: 6.20. A barrier that was not really thought, not even in the time of Bubka, if only because the Soviet-Ukrainian thought economically in the records, from centimeter to centimeter, lengthening the deadlines too much.
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