Sunday, 7 March 2021
Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yaroslava Mahuchikh, three of the world’s finest young athletes, provided the European Athletics Indoor Championships with a golden finale in Torun.
Duplantis, as expected, added the European Indoor pole vault title to his rapidly growing list of achievements in an Arena without spectators other than enthusiastic fellow athletes and officials.
The 20-year-old Swede required just three first-time clearances, the highest of which was 5.85 metres, before going on to set a Championship record of 6.05m and then taking three tilts - one of them close - at adding a centimetre to his own world record of 6.18m.