Armand Duplantis in Sweden erases the bar while participating in the male event of the pole jump of the Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 2025. (AFP)
Budapest, Hungary – Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis improved his world of pole jump on a centimeter on Tuesday, cleaning 6.29 meters during the athletics meeting in Budapest.
The Duplantis in Sweden broke the world record for the 13th time as it climbed the bar during the second attempt to improve its 6.28 m of Stockholm in June.
It was the third record of the 25-year-old player in 2025, having also succeeded 6.27 m in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
Duplantis won his 33rd victory in competition, authorizing 6.11 m during his first attempt to finish before Emmanouil Karalis of Greece (6.02 m) and Kurtis Marschall in Australia (5.83m).
During his second attempt at 6.29 m, Duplantis hit the bar with a leg and his stomach, but he held, and the jump was validated.
Since the Ukrainian Sergey Bubka has become the first athlete to release 6 meters on July 13, 1985 in Paris, the world record was broken 26 times, including 12 times by Bubka, 13 times by Duplantis and once by the French Renaud Lavillenie.
The Duplantis born in the United States broke the world record in 2020 with 6.17m.
Duplantis is preferred for a third consecutive outdoor world title in a month in Tokyo.
On the track, the Jamaican sprinter Bryan Levell posed a marker for these championships by publishing the third fastest time this year to win the 200m male.
The 21-year-old, who reached the semi-finals at last year’s Olympic Games, headed for the race with a better 20.10 season.
He moved away from the field in the house directly to win in 19.69 to visit the third best time of the year behind the Americans Noah Lyles (19.63sec) and Kenneth Bednarek (19.67sec).
Levell has shattered the record for the 0.19-second Erriyon Knighton meeting leaving the South African veteran Wayde Van Niekerk a distant finalist in 20.07.
The Olympic bronze medalist Muzala Samukonga prevented Jereem Richards and Khaleb McRae to win the male 400m in a better from the 44.11 season while Laban Kipkir CHEPKWONY, who finished fourth in the world tests of Kenya last month, won the 800m male 2016.
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Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has only managed a fourth place in the 100m female while the Ivorian sprinter Marie-Josee Ta Lou Smith held Tina Clayton and the 200m world champion Shericka Jackson.
