LAUSANNE — Two-times Olympic champion Armand Duplantis soared to another victory in his illustrious resume, winning the city pole vault competition on Wednesday to open the Lausanne Diamond League meeting. The 24-year-old cleared a meeting record of 6.15 meters at Place de la Navigation, two weeks after he captured his second consecutive Olympic title with a stunning world-record 6.
25 jump in Paris. The Swede needed just four jumps to clinch Wednesday’s victory with a height of 6.0, then had the bar raised to a meeting-record 6.
15, clearing it on his third attempt. “It’s always nerve-wracking when you have a big performance like I did at the Olympics,” Duplantis told reporters. “I stepped out on the track today and I really loved it.
” Olympic silver medalist Sam Kendricks of the U.S. cleared 5.
92 for second place. Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen, Australia’s Kurtis Marschall and E.J.
Obiena of the Philippines finished in a three-way tie for third with 5.82. Duplantis wowed the Stade de France crowd at the Paris Olympics when he broke the world record for a ninth time.
The remainder of the Lausanne Diamond League program is on Thursday at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise. RELATED: Athletics: Duplantis and Warholm to compete in 100m sprint | Olympics: Peerless Duplantis caps golden night with pole vault world record —Reporting by Lori Ewing; editing by Clare Fallon.
