Sweden's Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis retained his Olympic rod vault title by breaking his ain world grounds - and past celebrated wildly pinch his woman and teammates.
Duplantis saw off silver medalist Sam Kendricks of nan USA and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis - who took bronze - earlier clearing 6.10m astatine nan first attempt.
That saw nan 24-year-old hit Thiago Braz's Olympic grounds of 6.03m from Rio 2016 earlier he took on his ain world grounds of 6.24m - group successful April.
With each different arena having vanished for nan nighttime and 69,000 fans creating a deafening ambiance successful Paris, he cleared 6.25m astatine nan 3rd and last attempt.
The Louisiana-born Swedish-American instantly roseate from nan mat and sprinted towards nan stands. He leapt into nan aerial and past embraced his girlfriend, exemplary Desire Inglander.
Sweden's Armand Duplantis embraces his woman Desire Inglander aft winning gold
The rod vault champion past celebrated wildly pinch 1 of his Sweden teammates successful Paris
The brace kissed arsenic fans celebrated astir them earlier Duplantis was mobbed by his Sweden teammates.
The 24-year-old was truthful fired up while hugging 1 of his countrymen that nan brace began shoving and moreover punching each different successful nan chest.
Duplantis besides celebrated his triumph by mimicking Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikec, whose nonchalant style has made him an net sensation.
The rod vault prima has now added a 2nd Olympic crown to his agelong database of achievements, which already included 2 world title golds and 3 European titles.
'I haven't processed really awesome that infinitesimal was,' he said afterwards. 'It´s 1 of those things that doesn't really consciousness real, specified an retired of assemblage experience.
He added: 'The biggest dream since I was a kid was to break nan world grounds astatine nan Olympics.
'And I've been capable to do that successful beforehand of nan astir ridiculous crowd I´ve ever competed successful beforehand of.
'I felt really prepared. I've ne'er been truthful locked successful my life than successful these past 3 months. Now I´m conscionable fresh to eat a bunch of food. The statement is going to beryllium beautiful big.'
Duplantis, nan Louisiana-born Swedish-American, and his girlfriend Desire pictured successful 2023