Duplantis clears 6.25m
Mondo Duplantis won his fourth straight indoor pole‑vault title and set a new championship record at 6.25m, with Emmanouil Karalis taking silver and Kurtis Marschall rounding out the podium. (olympics.com)
The final was held in Toruń’s Kujawsko‑Pomorska Arena on 21 March 2026 during the World Athletics Indoor Championships. (worldathletics.org) For the first time in indoor history three vaulters cleared six metres in the same contest, and a record eight athletes cleared 5.85m in the same competition. (worldathletics.org) Greece’s Emmanouil Karalís moved ahead with a 6.05m clearance and used his remaining attempts at the higher bar before finishing runner‑up for a second straight world indoor final. (abcnews.com) Australia’s Kurtis Marschall equalled his personal best by clearing 6.00m to claim bronze. (worldathletics.org) Duplantis opened at 5.50m, cleared 5.85m, skipped 5.95m, re‑entered at 6.00m, and then produced first‑time clearances at 6.10m and 6.15m before his decisive jump later in the competition. (worldathletics.org) He declined to attempt a new world mark in Toruń after having raised the world record to 6.31m at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on 12 March, a mark he set the week before the championships. (abcnews.com) The victory in Toruń was recorded as Duplantis’s ninth senior global title and continued a run in which he has not been beaten at a global or continental championships since 2019. (worldathletics.org)
