WATCH: Mondo Duplantis – surprise, surprise – breaks pole vault world record for the 11th time | Sport-others News
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France on Friday. The two-times Olympic and world champion cleared the record height on his first attempt to break his previous global mark of 6.26 set in Silesia in August. “I just felt really good,” Duplantis told reporters. “What can I say, I came here to do it. I put everything in place to do it. The run-up worked really well. I just did it.”ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
The 25-year-old Duplantis had earlier in the day released his first song “Bop” under his nickname “Mondo”. His song played over the arena’s sound system during his record jump. “When I made this song a couple of months ago, I thought this would be a perfect song to jump to here. That’s why I rushed it out,” Duplantis said.
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When did Duplantis break his record for the first time?
His first world record vault came in Torun, Poland back in February 2020, when he cleared 6.17m to add a centimetre to Renaud Lavillenie’s previous world record of 6.16m that had stood since 2014. The Swede then went on to break his record immediately the weekend after in Glasgow, exactly 6 years after Lavillenie.He broke the record thrice in the 2022, twice in 2023, thrice in 2024 (including the night he won gold at the Paris Olympics) and now has started the 2025 season with a new mark in just his second event.
“I know I can jump higher, and I want to jump a lot higher,” Duplantis had earlier told Olympics.com. “I would like to jump over 6.30m.” He is getting ever so closer to it.
Mondo Duplantis’ world records:
6.27: Maison des Sports, Clermont-Ferrand (FRA), 28 Feb 20256.26: Stadion Śląski, Chorzów (POL), 25 Aug 20246.25: Stade de France, Paris (FRA), 5 Aug 20246.24: Egret Stadium, Xiamen (CHN), 20 Apr 20246.23: Hayward Field, Eugene (USA), 17 Sep 20236.22 (i): Maison des Sports, Clermont-Ferrand (FRA), 25 Feb 20236.21: Hayward Field, Eugene (USA), 24 Jul 20226.20 (i): Štark Arena, Beograd (SRB), 20 Mar 20226.19 (i): Štark Arena, Beograd (SRB), 07 Mar 20226.18 (i): Emirates Arena, Glasgow (GBR), 15 Feb 20206.17 (i): Arena, Toruń (POL), 08 Feb 2020
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