Armand Duplantis clears 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in France, while Britain's Molly Caudery has a big win in Madrid.

Centimeter by centimeter, Mondo Duplantis is soaring closer to the sky and securing his legacy as the greatest pole vaulter in history.

Sweden's Armand "Mondo Duplantis" lifted his pole vault world record to 6.27 meters in a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting on Friday.

It was the 11th time Sweden's Armand Duplantis had broken the record by one centimeter since first claiming it with a leap of 6.16m in February 2020.

Mondo Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for an 11th time, clearing 6.27 meters (20 feet, 6 3/4 inches) at an indoor competition in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Friday. Duplantis, a 25-year-old Swede who earlier Friday released his first song,

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis set a new world pole vault record on Friday, clearing 6.27 meters at the All Star Perche, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting.

Armand Duplantis has now bettered the world record by a centimetre in each of his 11 times from 2020, and has broken it four times in the last 11 months.

Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis on Friday broke his own pole vaulting world record at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand, France and then promoted another type of record.

The Swede cleared 6.27m at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France to better his previous mark by one centimetre