Pole vaulter Armand “World” Duplantis has won the show duel in the 100-meter sprint against the 400-meter hurdler Karsten Warholm The Swedish double Olympic champion was in action on Wednesday, the evening before the Diamond League meeting in Zurich’s Letzigrund 10.37 seconds ten hundredths of a second faster than the Norwegian. Duplantis improved his best time from 2018 by two tenths.
The 28-year-old Norwegian also ran a personal best time of 10.47 seconds, two hundredths of a second faster than his previous best time, which he set seven years ago. The idea came about a year earlier in Monaco, when the two luminaries of their disciplines from Scandinavia discussed who would be faster in the sprint.
In front of 3,000 paying spectators Duplantis in the lead in calm weather and could not be caught. The defeated Norwegian Warholm must start on Thursday in the 400 m hurdles in the Swedish shirt to redeem his bet. The Austrian record over 100 m is held by Markus Fuchs with a time of 10.08 seconds.