Duplantis, Bol and Chopra among global champions descending on Ostrava

Mondo Duplantis will return to action nine days on from his latest world pole vault record when he takes to the runway at the Ostrava Golden Spike, this season’s ninth World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on Tuesday (24).

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The Olympic and world champion will be joined in the Czech city by multiple other global gold medallists, including Femke Bol, Neeraj Chopra, Grant Holloway and Haruka Kitaguchi.

Sweden’s Duplantis added another centimetre to his own world pole vault record when he cleared 6.28m in front of home fans in Stockholm on 15 June and now he heads back to a meeting where he vaulted 6.12m in 2023 to claim one of the three Golden Spike victories he has achieved so far. It will be his ninth competition of the year, with all bar one of those featuring wins with vaults of 6.05m or higher.

Greek record-holder Emmanouil Karalis was runner-up to Duplantis in Oslo, Shanghai/Keqiao and Xiamen – and he also forms part of the field in Ostrava, along with Kurtis Marschall, Sondre Guttormsen and Austin Miller.