Armand Duplantis, the pole vault athlete, achieved his seventh world report on the Diamond League Last. After clearing six meters, 23 centimeters, Duplantis celebrated by working over the stands along with his arms raised within the air. This was the second world report set on the season-ending meet, with Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay additionally breaking the ladies’s 5,000-meter report. Duplantis wanted just one try to clear 6.23m, a centimeter increased than his earlier report. His historic soar positioned him far forward of Ernest John Obiena, who completed in second place.

Duplantis expressed his pleasure after setting the world report and expressed hope to attain even larger heights in his profession. Tsegay, the ladies’s 5,000-meter report breaker, took almost 5 seconds off the earlier report and narrowly missed breaking the 14-minute barrier. The efforts of each athletes have helped to decrease the ladies’s 5,000m report by almost 11 seconds over the previous three years.