Duplantis with a brief winter season
ASTANA (KAZ): World document holder Armand Mondo Duplantis is opening his brief indoor season on Saturday in Astana on the WIT Gold meet. Duplantis has extra main titles on his thoughts for 2024. After opening, he’ll compete at his personal assembly, the Mondo Traditional, in his hometown of Uppsala on 6 February (WIT Silver), adopted by a return to Lavillenie’s assembly in Clermont-Ferrand on February 22 (WIT Silver).
Then, he’ll search to retain his title on the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24, which can run from 1-3 March in Glasgow’s Emirates Enviornment, the place Duplantis set his second world document of 6.18m in 2020. “I’m going to have a schedule like final 12 months of simply 4 indoor competitions, preserving it fairly brief and candy,” he stated. “So, that’s good. Solely just some competitions, however I get to essentially assault them,” he stated for World Athletics. In Astana with Duplantis, his coaching associate Ben Broeders, additionally Norway´s Sondre Guttormsen, US Cole Walsh, German Oleg Zernikel, and in-shape Urho Kujanpaa from Finland.
RunBlogRun opines: Mondo Duplantis is the world document holder, indoor and outside, within the Males’s pole vault. An entertaining athlete, this author watched Mondo on the LA Grand Prix final Might, communicate with so selfies, take photographs, and communicate to followers whereas warming up and having a sandwich over an hour earlier than he and Sam Kendricks dueled at UCLA’s Drake Stadium.