Overview

• Duplantis cleared 6.28 metres on his opening attempt to improve his previous world record by one centimetre.
• The American-born Swede achieved the mark at Sunday’s Diamond League meeting in Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium, built for the 1912 Games.
• Australian vaulter Kurtis Marschall matched a season best of 5.90 metres but failed to clear six metres in three attempts.
• Duplantis celebrated the milestone by sprinting off the landing mat and tearing off his singlet in front of cheering family and fans.
• In the women’s 400m hurdles, Netherlands’ Femke Bol won in a season-best 52.11 seconds with American Dalilah Muhammad eight-tenths of a second back.