Swedens Armand Duplantis celebrates after he set a brand new world file and received the boys’s pole vault occasion of the Silesia Diamond League athletics assembly in Chorzow, Poland, on August 25, 2024. Photograph by Sergei GAPON / AFP
CHORŹOW, Poland — Armand Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen thrilled spectators as they set world data on the Silesia Diamond League assembly on Sunday.
Duplantis celebrated in his standard exuberant type as he set a brand new mark of 6.26 metres within the pole vault, lower than three weeks after he final broke it when defending his Olympic title in Paris.
The 24-year-old Swede was congratulated by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who got here onto the monitor and shook his hand.
“Every little thing simply got here collectively to permit me to do that,” mentioned Duplantis, whose first world file additionally got here in Poland in February, 2020.
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“I do know lots of people got here right here to see me bounce, so I wished to place in a great exhibiting for them.
“This yr I centered on the Olympics, the file simply got here naturally as a result of I used to be in fine condition.
“So I’m not stunned with the file as we speak, however I’m grateful.”
Swedens Armand Duplantis competes to win the boys’s pole vault occasion of the Silesia Diamond League athletics assembly in Chorzow, Poland, on August 25, 2024. | Photograph by Sergei GAPON / AFP
Within the 3,000 meters run, Ingebrigtsen, who misplaced his 1500m Olympic crown however received the 5,000m title, held his arms to his face in astonishment, then on high of his, head mouth agape, after posting a time of 7min 17.55sec.
The 23-year-old Norwegian smashed Kenyan Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old mark by greater than three seconds.
“It feels particular, superb,” mentioned Ingebrigtsen.
“I hoped to problem the world file right here, however primarily based on my coaching, I can by no means predict precisely what sort of time I’m able to.
“I’d not have imagined I might run 7:17, although.”
Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi had entertained hopes of breaking compatriot David Rudisha’s 800m world file of 1:40.91 set as he received Olympic gold in London in 2012.
Nonetheless, Wanyonyi’s thunder was stolen by his nice rival over the gap Canada’s world champion Marco Arop, who seemed heading in the right direction to set the file himself till tying up within the ultimate few metres.
Arop, who took silver behind Wanyonyi in Paris earlier this month, completed in 1:41.86.
Expectations had been excessive for Wanyonyi after he went inside 0.20sec of Rudisha’s mark in Lausanne final Thursday.
However he sounded lower than enamoured on the hype that had surrounded him probably breaking the file.
“My physique didn’t reply effectively however I’ve performed my greatest,” he mentioned.
“I don’t like when folks say that I’m going to interrupt the world file.
“I don’t wish to say something in regards to the file.”
‘Fireplace in me’
One other Olympic champion from Africa, Letsile Tebogo, made no mistake within the 200m. The 21-year-old Botswanan swept imperiously previous American Kenny Bednarek, who had led into the straight, to win.
Tebogo, who was awarded two homes and a diamond on his return dwelling following the Olympics, timed a meet file of 19.83sec.
Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm each set meet data within the girls’s and males’s 400m hurdles, exhibiting they’d shrugged off the frustration of failing to win the Olympic titles in Paris.
Dutch star Bol had cried after she did not mount a problem to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in Paris, ending third, however with the American absent received her second Diamond League race inside every week, timing 52.13sec.
Warholm has needed to recover from his Olympic disappointment in being dethroned as champion by Rai Benjamin, the Norwegian doing it in the easiest way potential in a time of 46.95sec.
“I wished to do that race effectively earlier than the Diamond League ultimate (Brussels September 13/14) so it feels good to come back out and to see the momentum going after the Olympics,” mentioned Warholm.
“It has been robust getting up after such a giant competitors, however as we speak felt good.”
The charismatic 28-year-old mentioned he hoped he would by no means once more run as flat as he did within the Olympic ultimate the place he nonetheless took silver.
“I didn’t have it in me in a very powerful day of the yr,” he mentioned.
“We have to return to work and to verify it doesn’t occur once more.
“So long as I’ve the fireplace in me, which continues to be burning proper now, I’ll carry on going.”
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