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World Athletics Championships 2022: Record-breaking pole vaulter Duplantis soars
Updated On: 26 July, 2022 09:14 AM IST | Eugene | AFP
Duplantis wrapped up the World Athletics Championships in Eugene in stunning fashion on Sunday, setting a new world record in the pole vault as the curtain came down on the 10-day global track and field extravaganza
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Sweden’s Armand Duplantis bites his gold medal after setting a world record in the men’s pole vault final on Sunday. Pic/AFP
Armand Duplantis wrapped up the World Athletics Championships in Eugene in stunning fashion on Sunday, setting a new world record in the pole vault as the curtain came down on the 10-day global track and field extravaganza.
The gripping finale could not have been any better scripted for the first world championships ever to be held on American soil—apart from the fact maybe that the US-born and raised Duplantis was wearing the yellow and blue of Sweden and not representing the Stars and Stripes.
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