Kurtis Marschall was thrilled to win bronze for Australia, thrilled to watch on as super Swede Mondo Duplantis broke his own world record and thrilled to be part of one of the greatest pole vault competitions ever.

There was a lot to take in.

Duplantis already had a third successive world championships title in his keeping after powering over at 6.15m in Tokyo on Monday night .

Ever the showman, he then had the bar raised to 6.30m and cleared it at the third and final attempt to the delight of a capacity crowd that had stayed on to watch after all other events had finished.

No-one was happier than his close friend Marschall, who had earlier equalled his personal best of 5.95m, which was good enough to pocket Australia's first medal of the championships.

The 28-year-old then had three

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