{"id":498099,"date":"2026-02-23T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498099\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:17:10","slug":"pole-vaulter-kurtis-marschall-becomes-the-fourth-australian-to-clear-6-metres-in-pole-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498099\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall becomes the fourth Australian to clear 6 metres in pole vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall has become the fourth Australian to clear 6 metres, achieving the landmark feat at an indoor meet in France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marschall&#8217;s milestone came when finishing second behind super Swede Armand Duplantis at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand on Sunday, local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 28-year-old from Adelaide needed three attempts to pass 5.9 metres but then cleared 6m at his first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Steve Hooker, Dmitri Markov and Paul Burgess are the only other Australians to have cleared the 6-metre mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hooker, the 2008 Olympic champion, holds the Australian record with a 6.06m vault at an indoor meet in Boston in the United States in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Markov&#8217;s personal best of 6.05m earned him a gold medal at the 2001 outdoor world championships in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">And Burgess cleared 6m at an outdoor meet in Perth in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marschall is just the 31st man in the world to clear the milestone, with his performance in France giving him automatic qualification for next month&#8217;s world indoor championships in Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-23\/insta-kurtismarschall-after-clearing-6-metres\/106375954\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/interactive\/106375954\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[insta]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marschall&#8217;s fresh personal best came in a competition again won by peerless world record holder Duplantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sweden&#8217;s dual Olympic champion was in doubt for the meet after a recent bout of food poisoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But Duplantis, a three-time champion at both outdoor and indoor world titles, breezed through the competition, clearing 5.7m, 5.9m and 6.06m on his first attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Duplantis then raised the bar to an indoor world record height of 6.31m \u2014 4 centimetres higher than his current global benchmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the 26-year-old \u2014 who had broken the world record at the meeting twice in the past, including last year \u2014 could not revise a world record for the 15th time in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Duplantis also holds the outdoor world record of 6.3m, set when winning gold at last year&#8217;s world titles in Tokyo, when Marschall took the bronze medal with a 5.95m clearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall has become the fourth Australian to clear 6 metres, achieving the landmark feat 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