There was no official world record for Mundo Duplantis at Stockholm Stadium.
But it became a Swedish record.
In Sweden, internal and external records are still separated.
– The reason is simple. Athletics expert A Lennart Julen says there are such different circumstances.
According to the IAAF, Mundus 6.16 was not a new world record.
Although it is the highest jump anyone has ever jumped outdoors.
There is only one world record, regardless of whether it came from outside or from within.
A rule that has appeared since 2000 and applies to all branches of athletics.
But in Sweden it is a new Swedish record and that is why Mundo was forced to control doping afterwards.
Yes, it’s one of the things required to get approval for the record, says Julien.
After all his years in the Swedish Athletics Federation, he is an advocate of having two records.
One outside and one inside.
– Yes, because there are many different conditions, he says.
– Most indoor arenas are not designed for athletics and have building courses with better failure that do not exist.
– Take advantage of branches like pole vaulting and high jumping. In addition, you have one indoor climate. You can’t have a headwind or a headwind.
A good example of this is Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie who always wants to have laps when he jumps indoors.
She took him to the world record of 6.16 in Donetsk, Ukraine, and his three best jumps of his career came indoors. Outdoors, he has a more modest 6.05 as a personal record.
On the other hand, Mondo wants steady trails, like outdoors, even when he’s jumping indoors.
Both world records came in Belgrade last winter on this basis.
But why does the International Federation have other rules on internal and external records?
– Yes, say it. This rule has been around for a while, was repealed for a few years and then came back in the early 2000s. But at the same time, World Athletics has separate statistics for indoor and outdoor spaces. How would you explain it if you had shared records? Well, because they too have to realize that there are different circumstances.
But shouldn’t every country follow the rules of the International Federation?
No, it is up to each country to decide for itself. Sweden is not alone in separating records.
Of all the world records in athletics, only two got inside.
Mundos 6.20 in the pole vault and Venezuela’s Yulmar Rojas 15.74 in the women’s triple jump, both of whom were set in the indoor water course in Belgrade in March.