Chasing the Record

• Prize
  Bronze in Editorial/Sports
• Photographer
  Takayuki Meguro
• Technical Info
  1/1000s,iso4000,f/6.3,428mm,full Frame
• Photo Date
  2025/09/15

At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Armand Duplantis soared in the men’s pole vault final, clearing 6.30m and breaking the world record, a leap that sent the stadium into thunderous celebration. Yet at that very instant, another contest erupted on the ground: a surge of photographers, bodies pressed together, each racing to capture the defining image of that fleeting miracle. This photograph reveals two records intertwined—the athletic feat that redefined human limits, and the journalistic struggle to determine how such history will be remembered.