PARIS: Armand Duplantis of Sweden set a world pole vault record of 6.17 meters at an indoor meeting in Poland on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) .

Duplantis, the US-born 20-year-old who won silver at last year’s world championships in Doha, cleared the bar on his second attempt in Torun to break the previous record of 6.16m set by French vaulter Renaud Lavillenie in February 2014.