Duplantis clinches 4th straight world indoor pole vault title with a 6.25m record Sat, March 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM UTC 0 1 / 0APTOPIX Poland World Indoor AthleticsArmand Duplantis, of Sweden, poses after winning the gold medal and setting a new championship record in the men's pole vault final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) () TORUN, Poland (AP) — Armand Duplantis won another pole vault world title after he was pushed all the way by Greece's Emmanouil Karalis on Saturday.
Duplantis clinches 4th straight world indoor pole vault title with a 6.25m record
Sat, March 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM UTC
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1 / 0APTOPIX Poland World Indoor AthleticsArmand Duplantis, of Sweden, poses after winning the gold medal and setting a new championship record in the men's pole vault final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, Saturday, March 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) ()
TORUN, Poland (AP) — Armand Duplantis won another pole vault world title after he was pushed all the way by Greece's Emmanouil Karalis on Saturday.
Duplantis won his fourth consecutive world indoor championships with a tournament record vault of 6.25 meters, a 10 centimeter improvement on his winning height a year ago in Nanjing.
The pair left behind the field at 6.05.
Duplantis cleared his first attempts at 6.10, 6.15 and then 6.25, when he wobbled the bar.
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Karalis passed at 6.10 and 6.15, and missed his attempts at 6.25, finshing runner-up for a second straight year.
Duplantis put away his pole, foregoing attempts at 6.32 to break his world record of 6.31 that he set last week at the Swedish meeting named after him, the Mondo Classic.
Karalis was runner-up at 6.05 and Australia's Kurtis Marschall third with a personal-best 6.00, marking the first time in history that three vaulters surpassed six meters in the same indoor contest.
Simon Ehammer of Switzerland reclaimed the heptathlon title with a world record score of 6,670, adding 25 points to the previous high set in 2012 by Ashton Eaton of the U.S. Ehammer was the world indoor champion in 2024 and runner-up last year.
Also, Zaynab Dosso of Italy won the women's 60-meter final — Olympic 100 champion Julien Alfred was third — Christopher Morales Williams of Canada and Lurdes Gloria Manuel of the Czech Republic won the men's and women's 400, and Josh Kerr of Britain the men's 3,000 six months after tearing his calf in the world outdoor 1,500 final in Tokyo.
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Published: March 21, 2026 at 11:27PM on Source: RED MAG
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