Armand Duplantis on Sunday fought off a bout of food poisoning to stretch his near three-year pole vault winning run at the All Star Perche, but was unable to better his world record.
The double Olympic champion fell ill earlier in the weekend and only made a late decision to take part in Clermont-Ferrand, where he cleared 6.06m at the first attempt to take victory.
Duplantis won his 37th consecutive meet dating back to the summer of 2023. Australia’s Kurtis Marschall finished second 6m with Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis in third 5.9m.
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“I’m okay. I’m scared of how I’m going to feel when the adrenaline runs off though. I’m super light. That’s a good thing. You know, gravity doesn’t like weight, so that’s, that’s an advantage,” Duplantis said. “I feel actually pretty decent all things considered.”
Duplantis had three tries at breaking his latest world record set at last year’s world championships, but he fell short of the bar at 6.31m in his first appearance since Tokyo.
“I feel like I’m in really good shape. I felt like I definitely could have jumped really, really high if it wasn’t for the night before last, throwing up the whole night,” he said. “But other than that I’m not gonna complain. I’m alive, and it feels like it’s away now from the system.”
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