ZURICH :World record holder Mondo Duplantis won his fifth straight Diamond League pole vault final on Wednesday, while Katie Moon took the women's title as she prepared to defend her world crown in Tokyo next month.

American Joe Kovacs won the men's shot put, while local favourite Simon Ehammer took victory in the men's long jump to the roaring applause of the crowd at Sechselautenplatz, the largest square in Zurich.

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Duplantis cleared 6.0 metres on his fifth attempt and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis matched the Swede's effort. But neither man cleared 6.10 metres and Duplantis got the win on countback.

Duplantis, who improved on his own world record with 6.29 metres in Budapest two weeks ago, now has five Diamond League trophies, two fewer than French pole va

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