It was the 11th time Sweden's Armand Duplantis had broken the record by one centimeter since first claiming it with a leap of 6.16m in February 2020.

Armand Duplantis clears 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in France, while Britain's Molly Caudery has a big win in Madrid.

Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis broke his own world record on Friday at the All Star Pole Vault in Clermont-Ferrand, France and then promoted another type of record.

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France after releasing his debut song earlier the same day.

Mondo had first leapt past the world record in 2020 when cleared 6.17 metres in Torun, Poland, bettering Renaud Lavillenie’s 6.14 from 2014.

Swedish Armand Duplantis broke the world record for the 11th time. In the All-Star Perche meet, he soared 6.26 metres to set a new world record. He did that while his own recorded song was playing in the background.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 meters to shatter the pole vault world record for an 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Friday.

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis set a new world record with a winning height of 6.27 meters at the All Star Perche event in Clermont-Ferrand, France on Friday, marking the 11th time he has broken the world pole vault record.

Armand Duplantis has now bettered the world record by a centimetre in each of his 11 times from 2020, and has broken it four times in the last 11 months.

The 25-year-old Duplantis had earlier in the day released his first song “Bop” under his nickname “Mondo”. His song played over the arena’s sound system during his record jump. “When I made this song a couple of months ago,