Summary Renaud Lavillenie rdged out Raphael Holzdeppe to win pole-vault event of the IAAF Indoor meet.
BERLIN (AFP) - World record-holder Renaud Lavillenie of France saw off Germany s world champion Raphael Holzdeppe as their anticipated pole-vault duel fizzled out at the IAAF Indoor meet in Karlsruhe.
Lavillenie, fresh from going over 6.00m in Rouen last Saturday, took the competition by clearing 5.86 metres ahead of Russian pair Aleksandr Gripich and Ilya Mudrov.
Holzdeppe, who won the world title in Moscow in 2013, bombed out by failing all three attempts when he came in at 5.40m in a disappointing display.
With the competition won, Lavillenie, who set the world record of 6.16m last February, then failed with his three attempts to clear 6.01m which would have been a world season s best.
In the evening s other results, China s Xie Wenjun finished second in the men s 60m hurdles final as France s Dimitri Bascou won in a world season s best time of 7.53 sec.
Britain s Lawrence Clarke finished third in a personal best time of 7.63sec.
Kenya s Paul Kipsiele Koech won the men s 3,000m in a time of 7min 45.41sec ahead of Germany s Richard Ringer, who ran a personal best 7:46.18, and Russia s Yegor Nikolayev.
