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Armand Gustav Duplantis (born 10 November 1999), also known as Mondo Duplantis, is a Swedish-American who competes for Sweden. Regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time, Duplantis is the current world record holder at 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.
Duplantis is one of only three men to vault 6.10 m and above. The other two are Renaud Lavillenie and Sergey Bubka. As of June 2025, Duplantis has cleared or higher at 31 competitions in total; 21 times at outdoor venues and 10 times at indoor venues.
His two older brothers, Andreas and Antoine, and his younger sister, Johanna, also took up sports; Andreas represented Sweden as a pole vaulter at the 2009 World Youth Championships and 2012 World Junior Championships, while Antoine dropped pole vault for baseball in high school before heading to Louisiana State University where he became the team's career hits leader in 2019.
Duplantis graduated from Lafayette High School in 2018 and, like his parents and brothers before him, attended Louisiana State University, though he left in 2019 after his first year in order to turn professional.
Duplantis' nickname "Mondo" was given to him at a very young age by his father's best friend who is an Italian from Sicily. "Mondo" means "world" in Italian. At first, he was called "Mondo Man" when he was just a kid before it was shortened to "Mondo". His nickname stuck with him since then perhaps as a foreshadowing of his world domination and record breaking performance in his sport later in his professional career.
In June 2015, Duplantis announced that he would compete for Sweden. As a citizen of both the United States and Sweden, he could have chosen to vault for either country internationally. According to Jonas Anshelm, the Sweden national team pole vault coach who recruited him, Duplantis had originally planned to compete for the United States, but chose Sweden in part because Anshelm had invited Duplantis's father to join the team as a coach. Duplantis has also said that his older brother's great experiences representing Sweden at a youth level, as well as his own love for Sweden as a child made the decision to play for Sweden very easy, but that he nonetheless still feels a strong bond to Lafayette.
Duplantis represented Sweden for the first time at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia; where he won gold on countback with a first-attempt clearance of 5.30 m (17 ft in), improving his personal best by two centimeters and setting a new championship record jointly with Ukrainian Vladyslav Malykhin. While competing in Sweden, Duplantis, had first represented a club of his grandparent's town Avesta, IK Stål, and switched to his mother's former club, Upsala IF, in 2016.
On 6 February 2016, Duplantis cleared at a high school meet in Baton Rouge, setting a new age-16 world best, world indoor youth best and national high school indoor record; he was the first high school athlete to vault 18 feet indoors. Emmanouil Karalis of Greece, the same age as Duplantis, broke his world marks with a vault only one week later.
A month later, on 11 Mar, Duplantis improved his indoor personal record to in the same facility at the New Balance Nationals in New York City. His 5.82 m mark was however not ratified as a world indoor junior record by World Athletics because an on-site anti-doping test did not occur in New York, leaving the official World U20 indoor record going into 2018 still at 5.75 m.
On 1 April, Duplantis cleared 5.90 m at the Texas Relays, improving his personal record, setting a new World U20 Record and beating the previous record of 5.80 m set by Maksim Tarasov in 1989 and equalled by Raphael Holzdeppe in 2008 by an astonishing 10 cm. The vault also became a Swedish senior record beating previous mark of 5.87 m set by Oscar Janson in 2003 by . While the IAAF recognized the record with Duplantis representing Sweden, on 2 December 2017, USATF also ratified Duplantis's mark as the American junior record.
On 23 July, at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships In Grosseto, Italy, Duplantis set a pole vault championship record of 5.65 m to win gold. Duplantis won the competition on just his second jump of the competition by clearing 5.55 m on his first attempt. He then set the bar to 5.65 m and on his third attempt, he soared over the bar to break a Maksim Tarasov's long standing championship record of 5.60 m set in 1989.
On 25 February, at the All Star Perche pole vault meeting in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, Duplantis vaulted 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 record to 5.88 m on his third try.
On 27 March, Duplantis was granted a one-time waiver of bylaw 6.1.3 in the LHSAA handbook by the state association to compete in the elite men's pole vault section of the Texas Relays on 31 Mar without penalising his eligibility to compete for his high school. Before the waiver decision was announced, LHSAA faced criticism for choosing to elect rather than modernize a rule which was more to protect younger high school athletes from injury when competing with or against bigger elite athletes in contact sports. Bylaw 6.1.3 prohibits an athlete of a high school team from competing with an elite team or against an elite competition. A year ago, Duplantis competed at the Texas Relays elite pole vault event wearing Lafayette High School colors only to find out later about a possible violation of the LHSAA rule. He won that event with a world U20 record of 5.90 m.
At the 2018 World U20 Championship held from 10 to 15 July in Tampere, Finland, Duplantis won gold and broke the championship record with a vault of 5.82 m (19 ft 11⁄8 in).
On 12 August, Duplantis set a world U20 record of at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany to take gold in his first major senior championship title. In doing so, he raised his personal best by a massive 12 cm and it made him the youngest ever at 18-years-old to win a men's field event in the 84-year history of the championship and also the youngest ever to join the exclusive 6.00 m club. Even Sergey Bubka, the greatest pole vaulter of all then, did not clear 6.00 m until he was 21. His 6.05 m vault ranked him tied as the fourth-best pole vaulter in history, indoors or out and tied for the second-best outdoors.
On 22 February, day 1 of the SEC Indoor Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Duplantis set a new collegiate indoor record of 5.92 m to claim gold in the event. The previous record was 5.91 m set by Shawn Barber of University of Akron on 13 March 2015. In addition to the indoor collegiate record, it is an SEC championship meet record, world lead for 2019, Swedish record, and an indoor personal best. On 21 February 2020, Duplantis' indoor collegiate record was surpassed by Chris Nilsen when he jumped 5.93 m.
On 11 May, Duplantis cleared 6.00 m at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas., to set a new outdoor collegiate record. In the process, Duplantis helped LSU Tigers win its first SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championship since 1990 edging Florida Gators 105–95.
In June 2019, Duplantis announced that he was turning professional, thereby foregoing his remaining NCAA eligibility.
On 1 October, Duplantis placed second at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar, clearing on his third attempt.
On 4 February 2020, Duplantis cleared indoors at his first competition of the season in Düsseldorf, Germany. He followed that up with three attempts at a new world record of . On his second attempt, he cleared the bar but brushed it off with his arm on the way back down.
On 8 February, Duplantis broke Renaud Lavillenie's almost-six-year-old world record with a jump of at a World Athletics Indoor Tour Meeting in Toruń, Poland. A week later, on 15 February at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow, he increased the record by another centimetre to .
On 19 February, Duplantis won the Meeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais in Liévin, France by clearing , after which he made three unsuccessful attempts at the new world record height of . A few days later, on 23 February, he won the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand, France by clearing in his last indoor competition for the season, which ended with new unsuccessful attempts at . Duplantis ended his 2020 indoor season by becoming the first man in history to put together five consecutive indoor competitions at 6.00 m or higher. This streak was surpassed by himself in 2022 when he won six successive indoor competitions at 6.00 m or higher.
On 21 February, after the seventh and final Gold level meeting of the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour series in Madrid ended, Duplantis emerged as the overall winner of the 2020 World Indoor Tour after securing a total of 36 points from his best three results from the tour (which were in Toruń, Glasgow and Liévin). This is his first World Athletics Indoor Tour title.
On 17 September at the Rome Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Diamond League, Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's outdoor world best of , with a second-attempt clearance of . Since 1998, World Athletics does not recognize the indoor world record and the outdoor world record as two separate world records in the pole vault event. Official world record can be set in a facility "with or without roof". A new indoor best mark is accepted as the new world record if it is better than the best outdoor mark; Duplantis already held the world record at from his indoor clearance in February 2020.
At the one-year delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won a gold medal when he cleared a height of on his first effort, and afterwards got very close to beating his own world record. 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."
On 7 March, he beat his own world record by jumping at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting. 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 .
On 30 June, at the BAUHAUS-galan, Duplantis broke his own outdoor world best of set in 2020, by jumping .
On 24 July, he broke his own world record yet again to win gold, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon by recording a jump of . Though this was Duplantus' fifth world record, it was the first time that he had broken a world record outdoors.
At the 2022 European Championships held in Munich, he won gold and broke the championship record with a jump of .
Duplantis capped his season in September by clearing at the Zürich Diamond League final to retain the Diamond Trophy.
On the back of three world records, two global titles, a Diamond League trophy, winning 18 of his 19 competitions and 23 six meters or higher jumps in one season, Duplantis was named 2022 World Athlete of the Year by World Athletics on 6 December.
On 25 February at the All Star Perche indoor meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Duplantis broke the world record again, clearing to increase the number of his career six-metre-plus jumps to 60. On 26 August 2023, Duplantis defended his world title at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a winning jump of 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in).
On 17 September, he broke his own world record when he cleared 6.23 m (20 ft 5 1/4 in) at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Armand Duplantis Soars To World Record In Men's Pole Vault At Pre Classic , FloSports, 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
On 11 December, Duplantis emerged as the first recipient of the World Athlete of the Year (Men's field) award from World Athletics. Although this is Duplantis' third senior award from World Athletics having previously won the World Athlete of the Year award in 2020 and 2022, the 2023 award "World Athlete of the Year (Men's field)" is considered an inaugural award because World Athletics Awards changed from crowning a sole male and female winner to issuing three separate awards for men and three separate ones for women across three event categories: track, field, and out of stadia.
On 26 February, for a second year in a row and a third time in his career, Duplantis was nominated, along with Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, Erling Haaland, Noah Lyles, and Max Verstappen, for the prestigious Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award for 2024 (Djokovic won).
On 20 April, at the Xiamen Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, the first stage of the 2024 Diamond League, Duplantis improved his world record by one centimeter, clearing 6.24 m on his first attempt.
On 12 June, he won the 2024 European Championships in Rome, being the only competitor to clear the six-meter mark. Assured of the title, he set a new European Championships record of 6.10 meters on his first attempt before failing in his three attempts to break the world record. With his 6.10 m clearance, Duplantis achieved his 60th six metres plus competition so far. The next best in history is Sergey Bubka at 44.
On 5 August, at the Paris Olympics, Duplantis retained his Olympic title from 2020. He won with a jump of 6.00 m, after Sam Kendricks failed to clear higher than 5.95 m. He then jumped 6.10 m to break the Olympic record set by Thiago Braz at the 2016 Olympics and finally jumped 6.25 m, on his third attempt at that height, setting a new world record. In a repeat of the 2024 European Championships, Duplantis was the only competitor to clear 6.00 m when he cleared both 6.00 m and 6.10 m on his first try and again attempted to break his own world record of 6.24 m. He both created a world record and broke his own Olympic record, set 20 minutes earlier.
With his title at the Paris Olympics, the 24-year-old Duplantis became the first back-to-back Olympic champion in men's pole vault since American Bob Richards, who won in the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games. Duplantis and Richards are the only men's pole vaulters with two Olympic golds in the event.
Duplantis' ability to perform under pressure and to continually improve and break world record have solidified his status as a once-in-a-generation talent in athletics. His accomplishments representing Sweden at major global and continental championships are unparalleled. As of August 2024, he has set a total of 9 championships records and an Olympic record collectively at youth, junior and senior level competitions including rewriting the world record on three occasions when he won global titles: a 6.20 m clearance at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, a 6.21 m clearance at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon and his latest 6.25 m clearance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
His dominance in the event has drawn comparison to legends in other sports. The New York Times reported that Duplantis is to pole vaulting what Usain Bolt was to sprinting; Michael Phelps to swimming; Simone Biles to gymnastics. Duplantis' supremacy in the pole vault is so overwhelming that he often wins meets by almost , in a sport where medals are often won by margins of a centimetre. He has won all of his competition events since the 2023 Herculis, a Diamond League event in Monaco. By winning a second straight Olympic gold medal and breaking the record for the ninth time — each time by one centimetre — Duplantis has been called the greatest pole vaulter of all time. Prior to the Paris Olympics, retired Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka had been considered the sport's all-time greatest.
On 25 August, at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzów, Poland, the twelfth stop on the 2024 Diamond League, Duplantis improved his world record for the tenth time in his career and the third time in 2024 by one centimetre, increasing the world record to 6.26 m. The men's pole vault event at the Silesian Stadium saw two other jumpers (Sam Kendricks of the US and Greece's Emmanouil Karalis) cleared six metres besides Duplantis making it the first time in history that three pole vaulters broke the 6.00 m barrier in a single competition.
At the Silesia Diamond League's pre-competition press conference, meet organisers announced a historic award for the most valuable athlete of the meet, as judged by World Athletics points system. Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the longest-standing men's athletics world record in an individual event, clocking 7:17.55 min for the 3000 m, taking more than three seconds off the mark of 7:20.67 min set by Kenya's Daniel Komen in 1996. He was expected to win the inaugural MVP award. However, after converting all results into World Athletics points, Ingebrigtsen running 7:17 min for 3000 m was not enough to win. Mondo's 6.26 m pole vault world record was worth 1339 points to 1320 for Ingebrigtsen's 3000 m world record time of 7:17.55 min. Duplantis turned out to be the first MVP of the meeting and took home a sparkling 14-carat gold diamond-encrusted 'Champion Ring' worth $10,000, along with a cheque for the same amount. This was on top of the $50,000 bonus he received for breaking the world record.
On 4 September, the day before the Zürich Diamond League, Duplantis competed in an exhibition 100 m event against 400 m hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm. Duplantis won in a new personal best of 10.37 seconds, while Warholm finished second in 10.47 seconds, also a personal best.
On 13 September, Duplantis rounded off his 2024 campaign with a fourth consecutive Diamond League trophy at the 2024 final in Brussels, winning the competition with a meet record of 6.11 m.
On 26 Oct, Duplantis was crowned men's European Athlete of the Year for the first time outright having previously shared the award with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2022.
On 6 November, Duplantis joined a network of sports stars such as Brazilian footballer Neymar and Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm to become global ambassabor for the Wings for Life World Run charity event to be held on 4 May 2025 to raise funds for spinal cord injury research.
In a conversation with Puma's CEO Arne Freundt, released on 18 March as a part of the sports company’s annual report, Duplantis indicated he believed he can push the pole vault world record to 6.40 m in the next few years while 6.30 m is his target in the near future.
On 22 March, Duplantis won the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing with a winning height of 6.15m to ensure a hat-trick of world indoor titles. Duplantis was pushed all the way by Greece's Emmanouil Karalis who cleared a height of 6.05 m. In another era, Karalis would have comfortably been crowned a world champion indoors with that particular mark. However, at Nanjing, he became the only man in a championship final to clear a height of 6.05m and not win gold.
Going into the defence of his world indoor title at Nanjing, Duplantis has edged close to the century mark of 100 career clearances of six meters or higher, with an actual total of 98 clearances over six meters. With four clearances over six meters or higher at Nanjing, Duplantis surpassed the century mark to register an aggregate total of 102 jumps over six meters. In comparison, the next best was former world record holder Sergey Bubka with a career total of 46 clearances of six metres and beyond.
On 21 April, Duplantis won the 2025 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year to became only the second track-and-field athlete to win the award after Usain Bolt and the only field athlete to do so. The award came after a third consecutive nomination and in his fourth nomination of his career, having been previously nominated for the award in 2021, 2023 and 2024 too.
On 15 June, Duplantis set a further world record, his 12th overall and his fourth in a Diamond League meeting, with a first time clearance of 6.28 m at the home Diamond League meeting held in Stockholm Olympic Stadium. He previously broke the world record twice in Poland, twice in Belgrade, Serbia, twice in Eugene, Oregon, once in Scotland and China, and three times in France, including the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is the first time he has set a world record in his home country, Sweden, fulfilling a missing piece of achievement in his list of accolodes.
As part of a tradition of the stadium in commemorating an athlete's notable achievement of breaking world record within its grounds, Duplantis' name would be etched onto the walls of the "Stadion Walk of Fame" which leads into the arena of the historic olympic stadium, which was once the venue of the 1912 Summer Olympics. Duplantis remarked ancedotally during a post meet interview that the last Swedish athlete who broke a world record at the BAUHAUS-galan meet within the stadium ground was when Patrik Sjöberg broke the high jump world record in 1987 and coincidentally his mum was also present in the stadium stands.
With this diamond league victory on home soil, Duplantis has won 37 out of 41 diamond league outings since 2020 making him one of the greatest serial winner of the diamond league circuit. Overall, he has notched up a total of 39 diamond league meeting winnings since 2017 surpassing Renand Lavillenie's total of 37 winnings. He has competed in 93 events since 2020 and has not lost outside of diamond league meets.
On 11 July, Duplantis won the pole vault event at the Monaco Diamond League in a new meeting record of 6.05 m erasing the previous record of 6.02 m set in 2019 by Poland's Piotr Lisek. With another Diamond League meeting record under his belt, Duplantis moved closer to a clean sweep as he now holds the meeting records in 13 out of the 15 different stops of the 2025 edition of the Diamond League series. The remaining two stops are: Rabat's meeting record held by Sam Kendricks and London's meeting record held by Renaud Lavillenie.
At the 2021 Swedish Sports Awards Gala held on 18 January, Duplantis received a total of four awards. Besides the Bragdguldet announced earlier in December 2020, Duplantis also took away the Radiosporten's Jerring Award and the Swedish Sports Academy's Sportsman of the Year and the Performance of the Year awards, his second for both awards. The awards came on the back of a watershed season in 2020 when he set his first two world records: 6.17 m and 6.18 m indoors and an world outdoor best: 6.15 m. On top of that, he was undefeated in 2020. Duplantis' parents Greg and Helena Duplantis also received the Coach of the Year award from the academy that evening at the gala.
Duplantis has won a number of awards from World Athletics. They included a Rising Star of the Year (Men) award in 2018 as well as four Athlete of the Year awards including three outright World Athlete of the Year awards in 2020, 2022 and 2023 (Men's field) and a Field Athlete of the Year award in 2024. The overall World Athlete of the Year in 2024 was won by Letsile Tebogo of Botswana. He has also won similar accolades from European Athletics Association. They included a Rising Star of the Year award in 2018 and two Athlete of the Year award in 2022 and 2024. Duplantis was named 2024 BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year.
Duplantis usually divides his year between winters in Louisiana and summers in Uppsala in Sweden, adapted for when the two climates offer the best possibilities for training. The municipality of Avesta, where Duplantis's mother was raised, erected a pole vault bar beside the gigantic Dala horse monument to showcase the height of his world record, something that made Duplantis "break down in tears" over the significance of what he had accomplished when he heard about it.
Duplantis is currently dating Swedish model and content creator Desiré Inglander, whom he met at a midsummer party in Sweden in 2020. Duplantis and Inglander announced their engagement on 11 October 2024 after a surprise proposal by Duplantis to Inglander during a photo shoot for Vogue Scandinavia in the seaside resort The Hamptons in New York.
Duplantis released his first single, "Bop", under the name Mondo on 28 February 2025, which he wrote with Emil Berg and Rasmus Wahlberg. The three have written around 30 songs together, with two or three additional singles planned for release later in the year. "Bop" charted at number 31 on the singles chart in Sweden.
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