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Sweden's Armand Duplantis improved his own world record en route to retaining his Olympic pole vault title in Paris on Monday. In a sensational finish to the fifth day of track and field at the Stade de France, Duplantis sailed over the bar, raised to 6.25 meters, to rapturous applause from a 69,000-capacity crowd. ▲ Gold medalist Armand Duplantis of Sweden celebrates after setting a new world record of 6.25 meters in the men's pole vault competition during the Paris 2024 Olympics on Monday.REUTERS It bettered by 1 cm his own previous best of 6.24m set at the Xiamen Diamond League meet in April. Remarkably, it was the ninth time the US-born Swede has broken the record. In the competition before the procession, American Sam Kendricks won silver with a best of 5.95m, and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis took bronze (5.90) on countback. The gold meant Duplantis became the first man to retain the pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956. It ha
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