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Duplantis misses out on new world document

Printed on: Monday, February 21, 2022

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Armand Duplantis competes within the pole vault remaining.

BIRMINGHAM: Olympic pole vault champion Armand Duplantis fell simply quick in his bid to set a brand new world document on the Birmingham Grand Prix on Saturday.The Swede had three makes an attempt at 6.19 metres, one centimetre larger than his personal world document of 6.18m set in Glasgow two years in the past.
Duplantis got here closest with this third try, simply brushing the bar, to his evident frustration.

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Duplantis had already received the competitors by clearing 6.05m, properly forward of Brazil’s Thiago Braz, the 2016 Olympic gold medallist, who cleared 5.81m. Ben Broeders of Belgium completed third in 5.71m.
After Braz failed 3 times at 5.91m, Duplantis raised the bar to six.05m – a top he cleared on the third try.
He then elevated the peak to six.19m solely to fall quick “I’ve received blended feelings,” mentioned Duplantis.  “6.05m is an efficient bounce and consequence however I actually wished that 6.19m. “I’ve expectations of myself and I do know there are good circumstances indoors so I can break the world document, I would like it so badly,” the 22-year-old added.
Earlier, five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah received the ladies’s 60 metres.
The Jamaican, who finally yr’s Tokyo Video games retained her 100m and 200m titles, received in 7.08 seconds.
“It’s a very good win and though I wished to go underneath seven seconds, I’m good,” mentioned Thompson-Herah, who’s subsequent scheduled to compete n Torun, Poland on Tuesday. 

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“It’s a part of my coaching course of and I’m nonetheless eager about the World Indoors (in Belgrade subsequent month),” the 29-year-old added.
Within the males’s 60m, Britain’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake didn’t make the ultimate, ending seventh in his warmth a day after it was introduced he had been stripped of the 4x100m relay silver he received in Tokyo resulting from team-mate CJ Ujah’s failed medicine take a look at.
Noah Lyles, the world 200m champion outside, led a United States clear sweep of the rostrum within the remaining.
Lyles received in 6.55 seconds, with the second-placed Ronnie Baker given the identical time. Elijah Corridor was third in 6.56 seconds.
Britain’s Tokyo Olympic silver-medallist Keely Hodgkinson set a brand new nationwide document profitable the ladies’s 800m. The 19-year-old, in her first race since September, completed away from the sphere in a time of 1 minute 57.20 seconds to surpass Jemma Reekie’s British document of 1:57.91.
Her time was the quickest indoor 800m because the world document of 1:55.82 was set by Jolanda Ceplak on the European Indoor Championships in Vienna on  March 3, 2002, the day Hodgkinson was born.

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“It’s a bit bizarre!” mentioned Hodgkinson. 
“I need to rewrite the historical past books however that world document goes to take some attending to. 
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