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Aug
Swedish star Mondo Duplantis soared 6.25m* to set the ninth world pole vault record of his career and cap a gold medal-winning performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Monday (5). The 24-year-old has won every global men’s pole vault title since claiming his first Olympic crown in Tokyo three years ago. With this latest victory, he becomes only the second man to secure two pole vault golds at the Games, following the double achieved by USA’s Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956. Duplantis had the competition won at 6.00m before he had the bar raised to 6.10m –…