It was a shocking night of athletics motion in Poland as Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis and Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke world data on the Silesia Diamond League meet on Sunday. Whereas Duplantis surpassed his personal males’s pole vault mark for the third time simply in 2024, Ingebrigtsen bettered the long-standing 3,000 metres timing by greater than three seconds.
Norwegian Ingebrigtsen clocked seven minutes 17.55 seconds, erasing the document set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996, when he ran 7:20.67 in Rieti, Italy. It was the longest-standing males’s athletics world document in particular person observe occasions.
For Duplantis although, it was a fast turnaround. Slightly below three weeks after he final broke his personal world document, he cleared 6.26m, bettering the mark he set on the Stade de France to be topped Olympic Champion. “I do know I can leap larger, and I need to leap quite a bit larger,” Duplantis had instructed olympics.com. “I want to leap over 6.30m.” And he’s now inching ever nearer to it.
Duplantis first broke the world document in males’s pole vault in February 2020, additionally by the way in Poland, the identical nation the place he registered his tenth world document simply 4 and a half years later. It’s also his fourth world document mark within the final 12 months, going again to Eugene (USA) on the 2023 season-finale.
“My first world document additionally got here in Poland, indoors in Torun, so I’ve nice reminiscences from right here,” Duplantis stated. “It’s nearly being in fine condition and believing you are able to do it. I at all times need to leap as excessive as I presumably can and to maintain pushing. I’ve by no means hit a leap that felt completely excellent, so I at all times really feel like I can do higher.”
For Ingebrigtsen, it’s his second out of doors World File, so as to add to his mark within the 2000m. His earlier greatest time over 3000m got here in September final yr when he was almost three seconds slower than Komen’s mark, however he was a person on a mission in Silesia.
The 23-year-old was in shock when he crossed the road and checked out his timing, placing his fingers on his head in disbelief.
“It feels particular, superb. I hoped to problem the world document right here, however primarily based on my coaching, I can by no means predict precisely what sort of time I’m able to,” he stated. “I’d not have imagined I might run 7:17, although. At the start, the tempo felt actually quick, however then I began to really feel my approach into the race and located a great rhythm. (The) 3,000 is a tricky distance. After four-five laps, you are feeling the lactic acid, however you want to get going. The situations had been tough with the warmth as we speak, however it’s the similar for everybody.”
Three days in the past, the Norwegian had exacted a small measure of revenge over American Cole Hocker by profitable the 1,500m in Lausanne in 3:27.83, two weeks after Hocker shocked the Olympic discipline to win gold in Paris. He completed forward of a trio of Ethiopians, with Paris Olympics 10,000m silver medallist Berihu Aregawi second in a private greatest and the third-fastest time in historical past (7:21.28). Yomif Kejelcha was third.
“Now I need to problem world data in any respect distances, however it’s one step at a time,” Ingebrigtsen added.
(With Reuters inputs)
Mondo Duplantis’ world data:
6.26: Stadion Śląski, Chorzów (POL), 25 Aug 2024
6.25: Stade de France, Paris (FRA), 5 Aug 2024
6.24: Egret Stadium, Xiamen (CHN), 20 Apr 2024
6.23: Hayward Discipline, Eugene (USA), 17 Sep 2023
6.22 (i): Maison des Sports activities, Clermont-Ferrand (FRA), 25 Feb 2023
6.21: Hayward Discipline, Eugene (USA), 24 Jul 2022
6.20 (i): Štark Area, Beograd (SRB), 20 Mar 2022
6.19 (i): Štark Area, Beograd (SRB), 07 Mar 2022
6.18 (i): Emirates Area, Glasgow (GBR), 15 Feb 2020
6.17 (i): Area, Toruń (POL), 08 Feb 2020