Armand Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for a 13th time – and third this year – with a clearance of 6.29m at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 25-year-old double Olympic and world champion cleared 6.28m at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in June.
But he surpassed that figure with his second attempt in Budapest on Tuesday.
Duplantis first broke the world record, then held by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie for six years, in February 2020 with a 6.17m clearance in Poland.
His trademark is to progress the record in one-centimetre increments.
Duplantis missed his first attempt at 6.11m, with Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis retiring after failing twice at the same height. The Swede then had the bar raised to try for a new record, which he successfully completed, despite rattling the bar slightly on his second effort.
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