AFP, Belgium :
Sweden’s undisputed pole vault king Armand Duplantis brought the curtain down on an unbeaten season with another fantastic victory in the Diamond League finals in Brussels on Friday.
It was his 15th and final victory of a year in which he improved his own world record three times, up to 6.26 metres.
The US-born Swede was again a world apart from the competition at the King Baudouin Stadium in cold conditions.
He vaulted only three times, at 5.62, 5.92 and 6.11m, the latter a new meeting record. Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis was second with 5.82m on countback from home favourite Ben Broeders.
“My legs felt terrible tonight and I’m just really tired,” admitted Duplantis, who was left ruing taking on hurdles star Karsten Warholm in a pre-event exhibition 100m race in Zurich last week.
“That took a lot more from my body that I expected. With 6.11 metre I got a good result, but the world record wasn’t meant to be tonight.”