Unstoppable Duplantis bags third straight gold, Holloway shines

NANJING, China, March 22 (Reuters) - Sweden's Armand Duplantis won a third consecutive title at the World Indoor Athletics Championships with a leap of 6.15 meters and American Grant Holloway cruised to the 60m hurdles crown on Saturday.

Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji denied pre-race favourite Zaynab Dosso of Italy to win her second world indoor title in the marquee women's 60m sprint in 7.04 seconds.

Dosso had dominated the heats but could not summon up her best effort when it mattered and had to settle for silver in 7.06 seconds with Patrizia van der Weken of Luxembourg grabbing bronze.

Duplantis was the overwhelming favourite after soaring to 6.27m and breaking the world mark for an 11th time in Clermont-Ferrand last month, and at Nanjing's Cube the 25-year-old completed a century of jumps over six metres.

The twice Olympic champion comfortably scaled 6.05m for the 100th vault over 6.00m and despite a rare blip in his first try at 6.10m, he joined Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie as a triple world indoors champion.

"It's good to compete hard like that," Duplantis said.

"Over 100 jumps over six metres, it's great, it's a magical barrier that I want to clear in my career, and to be able to do it so many times, it's hard to comprehend, really.

"I think we put on a good show for everybody."

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