Armand Gustav “Mondo” Duplantis[2] (born 10 November 1999)[3] is a Swedish-American pole vaulter, the current world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.21 metres (20 ft 4+1⁄2 in) and 6.22 metres (20 ft 5 in)), the current Olympic and World outdoor and indoor champion, the current European outdoor and indoor champion, and the current Diamond League champion. He won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. Duplantis is a two-time European champion from 2018, when he set current world under-20 record, and from 2022. Indoors, he is 2022 World Indoor Championship and 2021 European Indoor Championship gold medallist.
Armand Duplantis
Armand Duplantis after his 6.0 m jump-1.jpg
Duplantis jumps 6.00 metres in pole at Stockholm Stadium on 24 August 2019.
Personal information
Birth name
Armand Gustav Duplantis
Nickname(s)
Mondo Duplantis
Nationality
SwedishAmerican
Born
10 November 1999 (age 23)
Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Education
Louisiana State University
Height
1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight
79 kg (174 lb)[1]
Coached by
Greg Duplantis & Helena Duplantis
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
6.21 m WR (Eugene 2022)
Indoors
6.22 m WR (Clermont-Ferrand 2023)
Medal record
Men’s athletics
Representing Sweden
Olympic Games 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Pole vault
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Eugene Pole vault
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha Pole vault
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Belgrade Pole vault
Diamond League
First place 2021 Pole vault
First place 2022 Pole vault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Berlin Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Toruń Pole vault
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tampere Pole vault
Mondo Duplantis at the 2020 BAUHAUS-galan meeting in Stockholm
On 17 September at the Rome Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Diamond League, Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka’s outdoor world best of 6.14 m (20 ft 1+1⁄2 in), with a second-attempt clearance of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in). Note that the IAAF does not recognize the indoor and outdoor pole vault as separate events; Duplantis already held the world record at 6.18 m (20 ft 3+1⁄2 in) from his indoor clearance in February 2020.
2021: Olympic title in Tokyo and European indoor title
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On 6 March, Duplantis competed at the 2021 European Indoor Championships. He was the overwhelming favourite to win the title after the late withdrawal of Renaud Lavillenie with injury.[39] Duplantis was still tested by Piotr Lisek and Lavillenie’s younger brother Valentin, who went on to claim bronze and silver respectively — the latter with a personal best. Duplantis however set a new championship record of 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) before making three unsuccessful attempts at 6.19 m (20 ft 3+1⁄2 in), his second narrowly missing the world record.[40]
At the one-year delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won a gold medal when he cleared a height of 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in) on his first effort, and afterwards got very close to beating his own world record.[41] Silver medalist Chris Nilsen was full of praise for the winner. He compared the competition against Duplantis that evening as being a regular footballer “trying to emulate Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo” and that his superiority over the world’s best pole vaulters was “impressive and ridiculous”.[42]
2022: New world records, first world titles and second European title
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On 7 March, he beat his own world record by jumping 6.19 m (20 ft 3+1⁄2 in) at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting.[43] Two weeks later, at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, he won the gold medal. At the same time, he broke his world record yet again, by jumping 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in).[44][45]
On 30 June at the BAUHAUS-galan, Duplantis broke his own outdoor world best of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in) set in 2020, by jumping 6.16 m (20 ft 2+1⁄2 in).[46]
On 24 July, he broke his own world record yet again, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon by recording a jump of 6.21 m (20 ft 4+1⁄2 in).[47]
At the 2022 European Championships held in Munich, he won gold and broke the championship record with a jump of 6.06 m (19 ft 10+1⁄2 in).[48]
Duplantis capped his season in September by clearing 6.07 m (19 ft 11 in)
2023
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Duplantis got his 2023 campaign off to strong start at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, the meet named after him. His winning height of 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) represented not only his best ever season opener but also the highest season-opening performance of any pole vaulter in history. He also broke Bubka’s record of 11 vaults of 6.10 m or higher (including indoors and outdoors).[50] On 25 February at the All Star Perche indoor meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Mondo broke the world record again, soaring clear at 6.22 m (20 ft 5 in) to increase the number of his career six metre-plus clearances to 60.[51]
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