GERMAN MEETINGS: BERLIN – ISTAF INDOOR – Lavillenie ups pole vault world lead in Berlin as discus world indoor best tumbles

Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie improved his own world-leading pole vault mark to 6.02m at the ISTAF Indoor meeting in Berlin on Saturday (14) before having three solid but unsuccessful attempts at a would-be world record of 6.17m.

Competing in front of 12,500 spectators at the O2 World arena in the German capital, Lavillenie entered the competition at 5.73m. When Poland’s Robert Sobera cleared 5.81m, he was the last remaining opponent. Sobera exited the competition with three unsuccessful tries at 5.88m.

Minutes later, Lavillenie sailed over 5.93m and then 6.02m, both on his first attempts. Having improved his own world-leading mark by one centimetre, the only thing left for him to do was to attempt to do the same to his own world record.

His third attempt at 6.17m was promisingly close, but the bar came down once more.

World indoor discus best broken three times …

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