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Freshman Hana Moll, Likely Paris-Bound, Won’t Go Pro Until College Vaulting Over [Video]

Hours before Hana Moll began warming up at the Mt. SAC Relays on Saturday, fellow pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis was 6,600 miles away — raising his own world record to 6.24 meters — 20 feet 5 1/2 inches.

Moll, a University of Washington freshman, says she was aware of that new global standard, set at a Diamond League meet in Xiamen, China.

But the modest 19-year-old didn’t let it distract her from setting a meet record of 4.60 meters (15-1).

Moll — whose record-setting twin sister Amanda also jumps for the Huskies — had three tries at a world under-20 record of 4.73 meters (15-6 1/4) but thrice displaced the bar.

The 5-10 superstar was disappointed. But she’s in good Mt. SAC company.

When Duplantis, as a 17-year-old Louisiana prep, competed in the same meet (but at El Camino College and not under-renovation Hilmer Lodge Stadium), he came away frustrated as well.

On April 15, 2017, …

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