Bubka's long-standing pole vault record tumbles to Frenchman

New pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie said on Sunday he was aiming to leap even higher than the towering 6.16 meters he cleared the day before in Donetsk.

Arriving back home in Paris to a hero's welcome, the 27-year-old Frenchman said that he was having some difficulty taking in the extent of his achievement which broke Ukraine legend Sergei Bubka's 21-year-old world record.