Kurtis Marschall pole vaulted better than he has ever jumped in his life, won a second successive world championships bronze medal … and got pumped.

Marschall was jumping against Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis. Which means Marschall was almost playing another sport.

Duplantis not only won gold, he then broke his own world record again. Having been sure of the gold when he cleared 6.15m, Duplantis put the bar to 6.30m and for 14th time broke the world record – for the 13th time he has broken his own world record.

He ended up jumping 30cm higher than silver and 35cm higher than Marschall’s commendable 5.95m for bronze.

Marschall also won bronze at the last world championships in Budapest. He’s had the misfortune of having a career that collides with the peak of the greatest the sport has ever

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