World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Men's Pole Vault Final - Japan National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - September 15, 2025 Sweden's Armand Duplantis in action during the final REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mondo Duplantis lit up the third night of the Tokyo world championships when he broke the pole vault world record for the 14th time with a jump of 6.30 metres after securing a third straight world title on Monday.
The gold medal was already in the bag and all the other events finished when the American-born Swede had the bar raised a centimetre higher than the record height of 6.29m he managed in Budapest last month.
