Armand Duplantis
Armand "Mondo" Gustav Duplantis (born 10 November 1999), is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time, Duplantis is the current world record holder at 6.28 m (20 ft 7 in) and the winner of seven senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, a two-time World outdoor (2022 and 2023) champion and a three-time World indoor (2022, 2024 and 2025) champion. Duplantis is also the current European champion.
Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the 2015 World Youth Championships. A year later, he placed third at the World U20 Championships. In 2017, he took the European U20 title, and the following year, World U20 title. Duplantis is one of the very few athletes in history (including Usain Bolt) to win World Championships titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of the athletics event.
Duplantis is a three-time European champion from 2018, when he set the current world under-20 record, and from 2022 and 2024. European and World Athletics Male Rising Star of the Year in 2018, two years later he was voted World Male Athlete of the Year. He was the 2021 European Indoor Championships gold medalist and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won his first Olympic gold medal. For his 2022 season, which saw him break world records three times, becoming World outdoor and indoor champion, European and Diamond League champion, and clearing six-metre-plus 22 times, Duplantis was crowned both European and World Male Athlete of the Year. Duplantis is a four-time Diamond League Champion, having qualified for and won the pole vault Diamond League Final event in four consecutive years, from 2021 to 2024.
Duplantis has cleared six metres or higher in competition more times than any athlete in history, including setting 12 world records. After Renaud Lavillenie cleared 6.16 m (20 ft 2+1/2 in) in 2014, Duplantis has single-handedly raised the bar from 6.17 m in 2020 to his current world record of 6.28 m in 2025.
As of June 2025, Duplantis has cleared 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) or higher at 30 events in total; 20 events at outdoor venues and 10 events at indoor venues.