Karalis wins silver in pole vault at World Athletics Championships

Emmanouil Karalis reacts successful the men's rod vault last astatine the World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, Monday. [Ashley Landis/AP]

Greek rod vaulter Emmanouil Karalis won metallic astatine the World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, clearing six meters successful the final.

The golden medal went to Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, who acceptable his 14th world grounds with a clearance of 6.30 meters and capturing his third world championship..

Karalis secured 2nd spot aft two failed attempts astatine 5.95m near him concisely successful fourth. He cleared the tallness connected his third effort earlier going implicit six meters, confirming his spot connected the podium.

Australian Kurtis Marschall matched his idiosyncratic champion with a leap of 5.95m to win a 2nd world bronze medal.

Duplantis, who grew up successful Louisiana but competes for his mother’s autochthonal Sweden, easy won his 49th straight meet, then kept the assemblage astir for different drama-rich half-hour to watch him spell for the record.

He cleared his top tallness connected his third and last try – the barroom still bouncing but not falling arsenic helium leaped disconnected the mat to start the celebration.

He gets $70,000 for the victory positive a $100,000 bonus for mounting the grounds astatine the world championships. [Kathimerini, AP, Reuters]