Olympics-Athletics-Duplantis breaks own pole vault world record after taking gold

Paris 2024 Olympics - Athletics - Men's Pole Vault Final - Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France - August 05, 2024. Armand Duplantis of Sweden in action. REUTERS/Alina Smutko

PARIS (Reuters) - Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.25 metres at the third attempt on Monday having retained the Olympic gold medal with a 6.00m leap.

Duplantis had earlier cleared 6.10 to set an Olympic record and, with the entire stadium watching after all other events had finished, he surpassed the 6.24 mark he set in April.

(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Ed Osmond)