"Mondo" receives the award for setting a world record for the 14th time when he cleared 6.30 and took his third consecutive World Championship gold in Tokyo in September.
Thank you very much, I am super honored and appreciate it super much, he tells the BBC.
The Swedish-American star sweeps clean both in the athletics arenas and when it comes to prestigious awards.
In April, he was named the world's top male athlete at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.
As recently as the end of November, he was named male athlete of the year by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Duplantis has won two Olympic gold medals, six World Championship gold medals (three outdoors and three indoors) and four European Championship gold medals, three of which were outdoors.
"Mondo" has won 37 straight pole vault competitions in a winning streak that began in July 2023.
In 2025 alone, he broke the world record four times – including during an acclaimed June evening at the Stockholm stadium in front of friends and family.
Viewers vote for the winner of the BBC award. Other nominees were American athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Spanish footballer Mariona Caldentey, American boxer Terence Crawford, Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani and Liverpool's Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah.
