World Athletics Championships: Kevin Mayer once again crowned decathlon world champion

At the end of the first day, Kevin Mayer had announced, in particular due to the abandonment of world champion Damian Warner, that a boulevard was opening up to him. A successful bet, since Kevin Mayer was crowned decathlon world champion (8,816 points) last night in Eugene (United States). As in London in 2017, while at the previous World Championships, in Doha in 2019, he was forced to retire during the pole vault competition, handicapped by a contracture of the left ischio.

In Oregon, without necessarily excelling, Kevin Mayer provided the essentials, transcending himself in key moments such as the pole vault (5.40 m) or the javelin (70.31 m), the same event which at the Olympic Games of Tokyo, last year, had allowed him to get back for the silver medal. Last weekend, the Frenchman will also have been very scared, especially during the pole vault competition, where he had to try three times to erase a first bar at 5 m.

Lavillenie 5th in the pole vault, world record for Duplantis

As at the Tokyo Olympics last year when he won the silver medal, Kevin Mayer saves the France team from zero points. Renaud Lavillenie took 5th place in a particularly tough pole vault competition and won, as expected, by the Swede Armand Duplantis, who improved his own world record by one centimeter (6.21 m). Lavillenie erased 5.87 m, before missing by nothing, on his 3rd try, a bar at 5.94 m.