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Armand Duplantis celebrates after setting a new pole vault world record (6.22m) at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 25, 2023. /CFP
Armand Duplantis of Sweden set a new world pole vault record of 6.22 meters at the All Star Perche, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting in France on Saturday, describing it as "almost an out-of-body experience."
Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m that earned him a World Championship title outdoors in Oregon last year.
Duplantis, 23, said: "When you have moments like this, when the energy is so high, and you're going down there for the record, it feels like levitating, it feels like my body never even touched the ground the whole jump."
This was the sixth time Duplantis lifted the world record. He set his first in Torun in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17m to add a centimeter to the previous world record of 6.16m set by France's Renaud Lavillenie in 2014.
"Each world record feels like it brings something a bit different out of me," Duplantis said. "Maybe the first one might have been a bit crazier, but this might be number two right now, it's really unbelievable."
He said re-writing the record books no longer left him with any nerves.
"The pressure doesn't really feel the same anymore to me. I've proved a lot the past few years, the past two years especially, and I know what kind of jumper I am, what I am capable of.
"I know that I am deserving to be in the spot that I am."
Duplantis is giving the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul next month a miss to focus on the outdoor season and winning back-to-back world outdoor titles in Budapest in August.
(With input from AFP)
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