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Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis clears 6.15m to break Sergey Bubka’s 26-year-old outdoor world record – ABC News
One of track and field’s oldest world records finally falls — as Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis clears 6.15m, beating the great Sergey Bubka.
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has broken Sergey Bubka’s 26-year-old outdoor world record at the Diamond League in Rome.
Duplantis cleared 6 metres, 15 centimetres at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meet in Rome with his second attempt, beating Bubka’s mark of 6.14m set in Sestriere in July 1994.
- Sergey Bubka (USSR) – 6.00m (1985)
- Sergey Bubka (USSR) – 6.01m (1986)
- Sergey Bubka (USSR) – 6.05m (1988)
- Sergey Bubka (USSR) – 6.07m (1991)
- Sergey Bubka (U…
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