World Athletics Championships: Armand Duplantis breaks his personal pole vault report on record-setting closing day

Armand Duplantis introduced down the curtain on the World Championships in gorgeous vogue on Sunday, breaking his personal pole vault world report within the closing act of the 10-day observe and subject meet in Eugene.

After the United States claimed emphatic victories in each the boys’s and girls’s 4×400 metre relays, Duplantis took centre stage and duly delivered an ideal finale for the primary championships on American soil.

6⃣.2⃣1⃣ @mondohoss600 🇸🇪 breaks his personal WORLD RECORD and claims his first world pole vault title!#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/9nRZLWLzTM

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 25, 2022

The Swede sailed over 6.21 metres to surpass his earlier mark by one centimetre – set in March en path to successful gold on the World Indoor Championships – and full his assortment of medals by claiming a primary world title.

“It’s great; I cannot complain,” Duplantis stated. “Actually, I didn’t take into consideration the report that a lot immediately …. I actually wished to win the gold so badly. It was the medal I used to be lacking.

“So when I was on this height, it was like everything came together and it happened from there.”

American Chris Nilsen took silver with 5.94 metres on countback from Ernest John Obiena, whose bronze was the first-ever world medal for the Philippines.

Unheralded Nigerian Tobi Amusan had earlier stolen the present within the ladies’s 100 metres hurdles, rocketing to a brand new world report of 12.12 seconds within the semi-finals.

She then gained the gold in what was initially introduced as a world report 12.06, though extreme wind speeds meant her time was dominated out.

“The goal was to come out and to win this gold…. The world record is a bonus,” stated Amusan, who completed 0.17 seconds forward of Jamaican Britany Anderson whereas Puerto Rico’s Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn went house with bronze.

American Athing Mu held off British rival Keeley Hodgkinson so as to add the world 800 metres title to her Olympic crown whereas Germany’s Malaika Mihambo, additionally a gold medallist in Tokyo, retained her lengthy bounce title.