Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis broke his own world record for the 13th time after clearing 6.29m to headline the Istvn Gyulai Memorial – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Budapest on Tuesday (12). The Swedish vaulter, returning to the scene of his 2023 World Championships triumph, was pushed all the way by Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis, with both men clearing 6.02m on their first attempts.

Karalis eventually bowed out after two failures at 6.11m, but Duplantis went clear at that height to add one centimetre to the Hungarian all-comers’ record he had set when winning the world title at this stadium in 2023. He then moved the bar to 6.29m – a one-centimetre improvement on the world record height he had cleared in Stockholm in June – and sailed over it on his second attempt.

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