At home, Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis cleared 6.16m in the pole vault, the best jump in outdoor history, at the Diamond League meet in Stockholm on Thursday. The 22-year-old world record holder (6.20m indoors in Belgrade in March) bettered her 6.15m in September 2020 in Rome, just two weeks before the worlds in Eugene (July 15-24). Before Duplantis, Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka had jumped the highest outdoors (1994: 6.14m).
Born and raised in Louisiana to his American father and Swedish mother, “Mondo” Duplantis has been crushing the pole vault for several years now. European champion in Berlin in 2018, Olympic champion in Tokyo in 2021, only the outdoor world champion title is missing from his list. He has already broken the world record four times since 2020, gradually increasing it from 6.17m to 6.20m this winter when he became world indoor champion in Belgrade.
Source: Le Figaro
