Philippinesí Ernest John Obiena celebrates profitable the lads’s pole vault last athletics occasion in the course of the 2022 Asian Video games in Hangzhou in China’s japanese Zhejiang province on September 30, 2023. (Photograph by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines—World report holder Mondo Duplantis received’t be becoming a member of EJ Obiena within the World Pole Vault Problem slated from September 20 to 21 at Ayala Triangle Gardens in Makati Metropolis.
Other than Duplantis, world No. 2 Emmanouil Karalis of Greece and No. 3 Sam Kendricks of america are additionally not collaborating within the event.
The reigning two-time Olympic champion Duplantis broke the world report for the thirteenth time with a 6.29m clearance at an athletics meet in Budapest. Kendricks claimed the silver medal in final 12 months’s Paris Olympics whereas Karalis bagged the bronze.
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Nonetheless, the nine-man discipline bannered by Obiena is predicted to ship a world-class occasion with a slew of Olympians within the fray following the addition of France’s Thibaut Collet, Poland’s Piotr Lisek, Turkey’s Ersu Sasma, Belgium’s Ben Broeders and Germany’s Oleg Zernikel.
The 25-year-old Sasma heads into the competitors with the very best rating among the many opponents at world No. 5. Obiena, who was as soon as ranked No. 2 on this planet in 2023, has slipped to No. 7 as of Sept. 2. Sasma positioned sixth within the Paris Video games.
Collet, at the moment ranked twelfth on this planet, holds a private better of 5.95m, whereas world No. 15 Lisek has been a part of the elite six-meter membership since 2017. He has a private better of 6.02m, which he set in a 2019 outside meet in Monaco.
Final week, world No. 6 Menno Vloon of the Netherlands and Individuals Austin Miller and Matthew Ludwig had been introduced as the primary batch of individuals.
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Vloon, who owns the Dutch nationwide report of 5.96m, additionally competed within the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place he completed in eleventh place.
Ludwig, in the meantime, is ranked twenty third on this planet. He competed on the Tokyo Olympics as an alternate after Kendricks was dominated out as a consequence of COVID-19.
Miller, the world No. 14, simply received the 2025 USA Nationwide Pole Vault Championship final month with a private better of 5.92m.
