Tokyo, Sept. 15 -- The third day of the ongoing World Athletics Championships was memorable as Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the 14th time, with a massive attempt of 6.30 m at Tokyo on Monday.

With gold medal already in the bag, the Swedish star took three attempts at breaking his own world record, saving his best for the last, after just touching the bar on his previous two attempts at the height.

"I am so happy, I cannot explain it. For the past two weeks, I really enjoyed being in Tokyo. I have been enjoying everything so much. I feel the only way to leave Japan was to set the world record. That was my mentality," he said, according to Olympics.com

Duplantis' win in Japan is his third successive ...