The men's

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at the

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took place on 20 March 2022.

Summary

Only 8th place Armand Duplantis and 12th place

Thiago Braz da Silva Thiago Braz da Silva (born 16 December 1993) is a Brazilian athlete specializing in the pole vault who holds the Olympic record of 6.03 metres. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics . ...

returned from 2018. That statement belied their credentials. Braz was the 2016 Olympic Champion. Duplantis was an up and coming 18 year old, who has since won the

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and had set 4 world records in the event. All 13 finalists were still in at 5.60m, which Duplantis used as his opening height. 8 cleared 5.75m while Duplantis passed. At 5.85m, only 4 would clear with Christopher Nilsen and Duplantis remaining clean. Only Nilsen cleared 5.90m, a height that eliminated Valentin Lavillenie, the younger brother of the defending champion

Renaud Lavillenie Renaud Lavillenie ( or ; born 18 September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to his Olympic success, he has won three Wor ...

, who had won this championship three times. Duplantis and Braz passed the height. In only his third attempt of the competition, Duplantis cleared 5.95m. It took Braz until his third attempt to redeem his passing at the lower height. That jump also improved upon his own South American record set six years earlier. Nilsen's third failure left him in bronze medal position. The next height was 6.05m, a height only six men had ever cleared. Duplantis cleared it easily to continue his clean round. The Championship was determined when Braz could not get over the bar. Duplantis was not done. He asked for the bar to be set at which would be an improvement on the world record he had set in this same facility just 12 days earlier. Duplantis pulled out a new, stiffer pole. His first attempt was getting the feel of the new pole as he went under the bar. After an agonizing 15 minute delay for the men's 4x400 relay, his second attempt also met with similar results. After another 9 minute delay for the women's 4x400 relay, he quickly came down the runway after his name was called. His first legitimate attempt at the height got his hips well over the bar, but he brushed it on the way back down. The bar stayed up and it was a new world record.

Results

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References

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Pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

Pole vault at the World Athletics Indoor Championships