After the 23-year-old Swedish Olympic and world champion had cleared the bar for his sixth world record he was swiftly joined in his celebrations by the Frenchman who set his own world record of 6.16m in 2014.

Duplantis, who had his best season-opening height of 6.10m this year, won the competition in this World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting with a first-time clearance of 6.01m, with Australia’s double Commonwealth champion Kurtis Marschall finishing second with a personal best of 5.91m.

The US-born Swede, voted Male World Athlete of the Year for 2022, switched immediately to the height that has been his main concern since he cleared 6.21m in Oregon last summer to win a first world title, and cleared it perfectly on his third attempt.

Duplantis has now achieved a total of 60 six metre-plus clearances in his career so far.

He set the first of his world records in Torun in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17m to improve on Lavillenie's mark.

One week later, Duplantis took the global mark to 6.18m in Glasgow.

He then had to wait two years for his next world record and again, two came in quick succession.

First, he cleared 6.19m at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting on March 7 2022 and 13 days later, he improved again to 6.20m in the same venue, when winning gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

Four months later, he broke the world record outdoors for the first time, clearing 6.21m at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.