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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 ...
Duplantis, the Lafayette, Louisiana-born Swedish pole vaulting sensation, won Olympic gold with a jump of 6.10 meters and then became one of Paris 2024's forever athletes once the competition was ...
The 24-year-old, who one publication called "the Timothée Chalamet of the pole vault," cleared a record 6.25 meters, the equivalent of 20.5 feet, on his final vault. The mark beat his own world ...
Pole vault. Armand "Mondo" Duplantis (born 10 November 1999) [3] is a Swedish-American pole vaulter who is regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time. [4][5] Duplantis is the world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.26 metres or 20 feet 6 inches, and 6.22 metres or 20 feet 5 inches, respectively). He is a two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024 ...
When he came crashing down into the padding on the other side of that sky-high, pink-tinted bar, so was another world record. Duplantis, the Louisiana-born 24-year-old who competes for his mother's native Sweden, cleared 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches) to break the world record for the ninth time — but the first time on his sport’s grandest ...
The men's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 and 5 August 2024 at Stade de France. This was the 30th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal, setting a world record of 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in). Sam Kendricks of the United States earned ...
The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. [1] As of April 20, 2024, 80 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole ...
Armand "Mondo" Duplantis during the "Meeting de Paris" Diamond League athletics event on July 7, 2024. Credit - Joly Victor—ABACA /Reuters. T he best pole vaulter in, say, the United States can ...