The French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie tried to return to the top of the historic tables in Clermond-Ferrand on Saturday, but failed three times on the 620 cm high bar. Even so, the Olympic winner from London 2012 wrote a great 606 cm, which he defeated with great reserve on the third attempt.
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Pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie during the Golden Stirrup athletics meeting.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
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The 34-year-old veteran showed his best performance in the last seven years, the last time he jumped so high in breaking the world record of 616 cm. One week before the European Indoor Championships in Toruń, Lavillenie lured the athletic public into a duel with current world record holder Armand Duplantis. The 21-year-old Swedish talent, who improved his absolute maximum to 618 cm last year, jumped 610 centimeters in Belgrade on Wednesday and also tried 620 twice there.
“This is probably the first time I’ll be in such a competition as an outsider. But an outsider with a performance of 606 … that’s unbelievable,” he said, looking at the duel with Duplantis Lavillenie, who was very happy with the performance at the home meeting. He got over six meters for the second time in the season and added four centimeters to the current maximum. Duplantis succeeded three times (610, 603 and 601). “With the season like this, I can’t wait to be there,” Lavillenie said.
Renaud Lavillenie ???????? cleared 6.06m for victory at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand this evening! ????
This was his highest vault since clearing a world record of 6.16m in 2014!
Next event: Torun 2021! ????#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/WJscIHZcDh
— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) February 27, 2021
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