A few days ago, the 2022 IAAF Indoor Tour belgrade ended, and The Tokyo Olympic men's pole vault champion Duplantis played well, defeating his opponent with 6.19 meters to easily win the championship and break the world record he held. His goal is to bring pole vaulting into the 6m20 era.
For Duplantis, it was a game that was both familiar and unfamiliar. The familiar reason is for the new world height of 6.19 meters, which he has put in for two years, as he recalled after the race, "Challenging the 6 meters 19 height, I probably tried 50 times. But the difference is that after more than 50 attempts, he finally experienced the joy of fist-waving celebration after taking off over the crossbar at this height.
The first few rounds of the competition still did not have much suspense. After skipping 5 m 61, 5 m 85 and 6 m in one go, Duplantis embarked on a routine "punch card mission" – once again striking a new world record. And the suspense also continued to the last moment, after the first two failed, the third attempt to jump Duplantis jumped up, the body swung in a graceful arc in the air, although the knee slightly touched the crossbar, but this time, he finally rewrote the world record as he wished. This is the fourth time the 22-year-old has broken the world record in two years. The first time was in February 2020, when he jumped 6.17 metres at the Toruń Chamber in Poland, breaking the world record for London Olympic gold medalist Lavillegne, a week later he raised the record by another 1 centimetre. In September of the same year, he broke Bubka's 1994 outdoor pole vaulting world record of 6.14 metres with a time of 6.15 metres in Rome.
According to statistics, so far, only 14 male players have crossed the 6-meter high jump in the indoor arena, but Duplantis is the only player who has set records of 6 meters 17, 6 meters 18 and 6 meters 19 in a row. The most emblematic manifestation of "persistence" in Duplantis is the desire to shock the world record beyond ordinary people, even if it has just broken through the limits of human beings, it is necessary to prepare for the next breakthrough. After setting a new world record of 6 meters 19, his answer has become more and more determined, and now he is close to the crazy goal of "bringing the men's pole jump into the 6 meters 20 era", and there is still the last centimeter.
That's a goal That Duplantis officially announced after last year's Tokyo Olympics, but now for him, the 2022 IAAF Indoor World Championships, to be held at the same venue in Belgrade next week, is undoubtedly the best chance to achieve that goal, after all, he has never won the stage at the World Championships and indoor World Championships, where gold medals and a world record of 6.20 meters are Duplantis' next goal.