PARIS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own world record as he successfully defended his pole vault title at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
Duplantis cleared 6.25m with his third and final attempt to eclipse his previous mark of 6.24m set in April.
American Sam Hendricks took silver and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis claimed bronze.
Duplantis, a two-time world champion who has broken the world record nine times, becomes the first man since American Bob Richards in 1952-56 to win back-to-back Olympic pole vault titles. ■
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