India, March 23 -- Armand Duplantis won another pole vault world title after he was pushed all the way by Greece's Emmanouil Karalis. Duplantis won his fourth consecutive world indoor championships with a tournament record vault of 6.25 metres, a 10-centimetre improvement on his winning height a year ago in Nanjing.

The pair left behind the field at 6.05. Duplantis cleared his first attempts at 6.10, 6.15 and then 6.25, when he wobbled the bar. Karalis passed at 6.10 and 6.15 and missed his attempts at 6.25, finishing runner-up for a second straight year. Duplantis put away his pole, foregoing attempts at 6.32 to break his world record of 6.31 that he set last week at the Swedish meeting named after him, the Mondo Classic. "I am proud to...