Here is the 25-year-old's path from 6.17 to 6.29 meters:
+ 2020 – the year he breaks the barrier
Armand ”Mondo” Duplantis jumps 6.17 meters in the World Championship tour event in Polish Torun and takes the world record from Renaud Lavillenie on February 8, 2020. The Frenchman's record of 6.16 meters had stood since 2014.
Just a week later, the 20-year-old improves his record by a centimeter when he clears 6.18 meters in an indoor gala in Glasgow, Scotland.
+ 2022 – three world records and double World Championship gold
After having improved his record to 6.19 in an indoor gala in Belgrade on March 7, 2022, ”Mondo” returns to the arena in the Serbian capital just under two weeks later for the indoor World Championship. Then he takes his first World Championship gold in his career and also clears the dream limit 6.20 meters.
During the outdoor World Championship in Eugene, Oregon, in July, the bar never wavers. At home in the USA, Duplantis takes his first outdoor World Championship gold in his career and he is far above the new world record mark 6.21.
+ 2023 – praises idol Lavillenie
When Duplantis grew up, the then world record holder Renaud Lavillenie was the big idol. Now ”Mondo” sets a world record (6.22) in the Frenchman's pole vault gala in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
I want to praise Renaud, without him I would not have jumped this high, he said.
He attempts 15 times during the season at 6.23 meters and in the end Duplantis succeeds – just like the year before, it becomes a world record in Eugene when he jumps over the height in the Diamond League final.
+ 2024 – electric evening at Stade de France in Paris
After having improved the record to 6.24 in the Diamond League premiere in Chinese Xiamen in April, Armand Duplantis amazes the world in the Olympic Games final in Paris.
After the Olympic gold was secured, as well as the Olympic record (6.10), the bar was raised to 6.25. After two failures, the 80,000 spectators at Stade de France erupted.
World record at the Olympic Games – I have dreamed of it a thousand times since I was ten years old.
Three weeks later, the world record is 6.26 when he jumps over the height in the Diamond League gala in Polish Katowice.
+ 2025 – full hit at home
Again, Duplantis strikes, this time in French Clermont-Ferrand in February, 6.27.
His twelfth world record in his career comes in Stockholm. The dream is fulfilled when ”Mondo” jumps over 6.28 and sets a record at Stockholm Stadium.
His world record he equates with winning Olympic Games gold.
+ 2025 – super jump in Hungary
In competitions in Budapest, Hungary, in August, Duplantis flies over 6.29 for the first time.
His thirteenth world record in his career and yet another step towards the dream limit 6.30.
I just want to continue and take 6.30 as soon as possible, said the star some month earlier.
