Unstoppable Duplantis bags 3rd straight gold in World Indoor Championships

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World No. 1 Armand Duplantis completes a century of jumps over six meters as he joins Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie as a triple world indoors champion

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis won a third consecutive title in the World Indoor Athletics Championships with a leap of 6.15 meters and American Grant Holloway cruised to the 60m hurdles crown on Saturday, March 22.

Duplantis was the overwhelming favorite after soaring to 6.27m and breaking the world mark for an 11th time in Clermont-Ferrand last month, and at Nanjing’s Cube, the 25-year-old completed a century of jumps over six meters.

The twice Olympic champion comfortably scaled 6.05m for the 100th vault over 6.00m and despite a rare blip in his first try at 6.10m, he joined Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie as a triple world indoors champion.

“It’s good to compete hard like that,” Duplantis said.

“Over 100 jumps over six metres, it’s great, it’s a magical barrier that I want to clear in my career, and to be able to do it so many times, it’s hard to comprehend, really.”

“I think we put on a good show for everybody.”

Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis pushed Duplantis hard but had to be content with silver after clearing 6.05m and American Sam Kendricks took bronze with 5.90m.

Olympic 110m hurdles champion Holloway exploded out of the blocks to capture an unprecedented third straight world indoor gold in 7.42 seconds and extend a decade-long unbeaten streak over the discipline.

He finished in front of Frenchman Wilhem Belocian, who crossed the line in 7.54 seconds, while home fans had plenty to cheer with Liu Junxi taking bronze in 7.55 seconds. – Rappler.com