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Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...
On 25 February, at the All Star Perche pole vault meeting in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, Duplantis vaulted 5.88 m (19 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) vault to better the pending world U20 indoor record of 5.78 m set by Emmanouil Karalis of Greece on 11 February. The 18-year-old first topped 5.81 m on his first attempt before improving the ...
With Armand Duplantis, the question is never whether he’ll win but how high he’ll fly. The 24-year-old Swede had broken the pole vault world record eight times, pushing the limits of ...
Swedish pole vault star Armand "Mondo" Duplantis put on a show on Aug. 5 on his way to setting a world record to draw a roar from a crowd that was chanting his name at Stade de France.
Duplantis passed it entirely. At 5.95m, Marschall redeemed his pass, with a first attempt clearance. Marschall is one of only three people to have bested Duplantis in a global competition, at the 2016 U20 Championships when Marschall was 19 and Duplantis was 17. Obiena, Duplantis and Nilsen all followed along making it on their first attempts.
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis extended his dominant reign over the world of pole vaulting on Saturday, setting his eighth world record in the discipline at the season’s first Diamond League ...
Duplantis was not done. He asked for the bar to be set at 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) which would be an improvement on the world record he had set in this same facility just 12 days earlier. Duplantis pulled out a new, stiffer pole. His first attempt was getting the feel of the new pole as he went under the bar.
Duplantis has now broken the men's pole vault record for a 10th time. He first set the record in February 2020 when he cleared 6.17 meters, and one year later he took gold in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.