Overview
- The 26-year-old cleared 5.65m, 5.90m and 6.08m on first attempts, then sailed over 6.31m at the first try to close the competition.
- The mark is his 15th world record since first claiming it in 2020 at 6.17m, continuing a pattern of mostly one-centimetre increases.
- The record came at his namesake indoor meet in Uppsala, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver event, and was his first indoor world record on Swedish soil.
- Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen finished second with 6.00m, with Zachery Bradford, Sam Kendricks and Kurtis Marschall all clearing 5.90m.
- Duplantis said he extended his run-up to handle a stiffer pole, and he now turns to the World Indoor Championships in Torun later in March, where rivals such as Emmanouil Karalis are entered.