In the women’s 100m, the 2016 double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson made a winning comeback in Europe. Warholm bettered his 47.08 from Berlin last week in the Italian capital.
Warholm holds the second fastest time in history with the European record of 46.87 clocked in Stockholm last August, coming within 0.09 of Young’s 28-year mark. It shows I am close to the world record.” I am really satisfied at being at that level. “This year I am getting a lot of MRs, my average time is getting really good. “Of course I’m satisfied, this is my third best time ever,” said Warholm, who left France’s Ludvy Vaillant a distant second at 48.69sec. The 24-year-old outdistanced his rivals but had to settle for a meet record. Two-time world champion Warholm, the second fastest 400m hurdler in history, had been hoping to topple Kevin Young’s long-standing mark of 46.78sec which the American set at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. You can the watch record-breaking jump in the videos below:īut Norwegian Karsten Warholm missed out on the 400m hurdles world record, despite winning in a blistering 47.07 seconds. After that first attempt I knew what I had to do it so just went out and did it,” said Duplantis, who heads to the final Diamond League meet in Doha next week. “I thought ‘why not just do it?’ be the best outdoor, to clear up the confusion.”ĭuplantis had cleared an earlier attempt but hit the bar on the way down. “It was something I really wanted to do, there was a lot of confusion between the indoor and outdoor,” said Duplantis. “It’s a surreal, super crazy feeling.”ĭuplantis set the world record indoors in February, and had made the outdoor mark his goal with the Olympic Games and European championships postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. “I think I’m still up in the clouds right now,” said the US-born athlete.
The 20-year-old succeeded on his second attempt in a competition he dominated in perfect warm and windless conditions, but without spectators to celebrate in an empty Stadio Olimpico. Pole vault star Armand Duplantis went past Ukrainian legend Sergey Bubka’s 26-year mark, setting a outdoor new pole vault world record of 6.15m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday.ĭuplantis, who already holds the world indoor record of 6.18m, bettered the mark of 6.14m achieved by Bubka in July 1994 in Italy.
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“It’s a surreal feeling, really, I still don’t know how to explain it,” Duplantis said. TURNING HEADS: Wild new Olympic event over in secondsĪUSSIE WRAP: Boxer finally ends 33-year curse Aussies stun world no.1 in boilover ‘HAVEN’T DONE S***’: Boomers make HUGE statement to USA LIVE: Aussie track star chasing history as dark horse emerges for Olympic gold The US-born Swede managed a best of 6.02 metres, twice going close at 6.19m in a bid to better his own world record.Īmerican Christopher Nilsen claimed silver with a personal best of 5.97m, while Brazil’s Olympic champion from the 2016 Rio Games, Thiago Braz, took home bronze (5.87m).Ī shot of Duplantis’ clearance at 6.02 metres shows he would have easily shattered his own world record. Sweden’s Armand Duplantis won the Olympic men’s pole vault gold and a viral photo shows just how astonishing his effort was in clinching the medal.
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