Mondo Duplantis easily clears 6.16m in the pole vault at Diamond League Stockholm to set a new world record in the event by 1cm #NBCSports #MondoDuplantis #d...
Check out this video, especially around the 1:20 mark. Just how much clearance did he get?? Looks to be nearly a foot to me. Obviously he is setting new WRs incrementally and collecting a nice paycheck each time he does it which is smart, but what do you think he could jump if he really went all out?
Also as a side note the moment at the beginning where Lavillenie is encouraging Mondo looks straight out of a movie. Such a cool moment between competitors.
Check out this video, especially around the 1:20 mark. Just how much clearance did he get?? Looks to be nearly a foot to me. Obviously he is setting new WRs incrementally and collecting a nice paycheck each time he does it which is smart, but what do you think he could jump if he really went all out?
Also as a side note the moment at the beginning where Lavillenie is encouraging Mondo looks straight out of a movie. Such a cool moment between competitors.
Yeah, the hip-height was gigantic, but he hit it with his thighs, so he wasn't clearing anything higher on that jump. But, yeah, it definitely does look like with absolutely perfect positioning he could still go a whole bunch higher, and I imagine he will at some point.
Check out this video, especially around the 1:20 mark. Just how much clearance did he get?? Looks to be nearly a foot to me. Obviously he is setting new WRs incrementally and collecting a nice paycheck each time he does it which is smart, but what do you think he could jump if he really went all out?
Also as a side note the moment at the beginning where Lavillenie is encouraging Mondo looks straight out of a movie. Such a cool moment between competitors.
There was not a single cm to spare. What are you talking?
Capable of 6m40cm easily with perfect conditions. If pole technology develops he might out jump the current support stanchion posts.
Perfect conditions are rare. Perfect conditions rarely happen when an athlete is in peak form and fitness.
Pole technology hasn’t changed much in years. Don’t expect much from this unless some unforeseen quantum leap in material science rears its head.
All very logical but I do think that the vertical jumps are unique in terms of world records being broken many times by dominant athletes as they are the only events where a tiny incremental increase can be set.
At his peak, and had it been more lucrative to do so, I am certain Sergei Bubka could have gone to clear further heights on some occasions that he broke the WR but doing so twice in the same meeting did not pay extra. The same applies to Duplantis where when absolutely in the groove and having cleared the bar without even touching it on a world record clearance it is not far fetched to think he could go on to jump much higher that day.