Athletics: Duplantis breaks pole vault world record

Athletics: Duplantis breaks pole vault world record

Here we go. One final attempt at raising his world record, set in Xiamen during a Diamond League meet in April, by 1cm.

The greatest pole vaulter of his generation, Mondo Duplantis.

Very few souls have left this stadium – it’s still packed to the rafters!

A blast of French ’60s rock icon Johnny Hallyday gets this crowd pumped up.

Mondo is ready for his last try. There go the claps again. Kendricks is asking the crowd to clap along too.

Can he? Off he goes…

A WORLD RECORD! HE’S DONE IT! 6.25M!

Mondo goes off running to hug his parents, girlfriend, and friends. It is his ninth world record.

It is ELECTRIC in the Stade de France!