Armand Gustav "Mondo"Duplantis (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈɑ̌rman(d)ˈɡɵ̂sːtavdɵˈplânːtɪs]; born 10 November 1999) is a Swedish and Americanpole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Duplantis holds the pole vaultingworld record (6.30 m; 20 ft 8 in) and is the winner of eight senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic (2020 and2024) champion, a three-time World outdoor (2022,2023 and2025) champion and a three-time World indoor (2022,2024 and2025) champion.
Born and raised inLafayette, Louisiana, Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the2015 World Youth Championships. A year later, he placed third at theWorld U20 Championships. In 2017, he took theEuropean U20 title, and the following year,World U20 title. Duplantis is one of the very few athletes in history to win World Championships titles at youth, junior, and senior levels.[5]
Duplantis is a three-time European champion from2018, when he set the currentworld under-20 record, and from2022 and2024.European andWorld Athletics Male Rising Star of the Year in 2018, two years later he was votedWorld Male Athlete of the Year. He was the2021 European Indoor Championships gold medalist and at the2020 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 metres or higher 22 times,[6] Duplantis was crowned bothEuropean and World Male Athlete of the Year. He continued to shatter his own world record multiple times a year in 2023 (two times), 2024 (three times) and 2025 (four tines) including one (6.25 m) at the biggest stage of all, the2024 Paris Olympics. He became a three-time World Athlete of the Year (2020, 2022 and 2023) in 2023 and the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2025.[6] Duplantis is a five-timeDiamond League Champion, having qualified for and won the pole vault Diamond League Final event in five consecutive years, from 2021 to 2025.
Duplantis has cleared six metres or higher in competition more times than any athlete in history,[6] including setting14 world records.[7] AfterRenaud Lavillenie cleared 6.16 m (20 ft 2½ in) in 2014, Duplantis has single-handedly raised the bar from 6.17 m in 2020 to his current world record of 6.30 m in 2025.[8] As of October 2025, he has cleared six metres or higher for a continuous span of 8 seasons in a total of 79 competitions dating back to 2018 when he cleared 6.05m at the2018 European Athletics Championships inBerlin.[9]
Duplantis is one of only three men to vault 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) and above, the others being Lavillenie andSergey Bubka.[10] As of September 2025, he accounts for 34 of the 46 competitions where an athlete has cleared at least that height:[11]24 times at outdoor venues and10 times at indoor venues. Duplantis is widely regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time.[12][13]
Armand Gustav Duplantis[14] was born on 10 November 1999[15] into an athletic family inLafayette, Louisiana, United States.[12] His American father, Greg Duplantis, is a former pole vaulter with a personal best of 5.80 m (19 ft1⁄2 in), while his Swedish mother, Helena (née Hedlund), is a formerheptathlete andvolleyball player.[16] Duplantis grew up primarily speakingEnglish, but also learnedSwedish as a second language.[17][18] He spent summers with his Swedish grandparents.[19]
His two older brothers, Andreas and Antoine, and his younger sister,Johanna, also took up sports; Andreas represented Sweden as a pole vaulter at the2009 World Youth Championships and2012 World Junior Championships, while Antoine dropped pole vault forbaseball in high school before heading toLouisiana State University where he becamethe team's career hits leader in 2019.[20][21] Johanna competes professionally in pole vaulting, also representing Sweden.
Duplantis graduated fromLafayette High School in 2018 and, like his parents and brothers before him, attendedLouisiana State University, though he left in 2019 after his first year in order to turn professional.[22][23]
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Duplantis first tried pole vaulting as a four-year-old at the family's home in Lafayette, Louisiana, and took to the event rapidly.[24] He set his first age group world best at age seven, and his jump of 3.86 m (12 ft 8 in) as a 10-year-old surpassed the previous world bests for ages 11 and 12 as well.[24][25] As of July 2015[update], he holds the world best in all age groups from age seven to age 12; he held the age 13 record until it was broken in May 2015.[24][26]
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 performances in his sport later in his professional career.[5][27]
During hisfreshman year atLafayette High School in 2015, Duplantis set national freshman records both indoors and outdoors and was namedGatorade Louisiana Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.[28]
In June 2015, Duplantis announced that he would compete for Sweden.[29][30] As acitizen 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.[31][32] 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 compete for Sweden very easy, but that he nonetheless still feels a strong bond toLafayette.[33]
Duplantis represented Sweden for the first time at the2015 World Youth Championships inCali,Colombia; where he won gold on countback with a first-attempt clearance of 5.30 m (17 ft 4+1⁄2 in), improving his personal best by two centimeters and setting a newchampionship record jointly with UkrainianVladyslav Malykhin.[34][35] 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.[36][37]
On 6 February 2016, Duplantis cleared 5.49 m (18 ft 0 in) at a high school meet inBaton 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.[38][39]Emmanouil Karalis of Greece, the same age as Duplantis, broke his world marks with a5.53 m (18 ft1+1⁄2 in) vault only one week later.[40]
On 11 February 2017, at theMillrose Games, Duplantis cleared5.75 m (18 ft10+1⁄2 in) to set the world indoor junior record.[41] That mark was ratified by IAAF.[42][43]
A month later, on 11 Mar, Duplantis improved his indoor personal record to 5.82 m (19 ft 1 in) in the same facility at theNew Balance Nationals in New York City.[44] His 5.82 m mark was however not ratified as a world indoor junior record byIAAF[45] 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.[46][43]
On 1 April, Duplantis cleared 5.90 m at theClyde Littlefield Texas Relays, improving his personal record, setting a newWorld U20 Record and beating the previous record of 5.80 m set byMaksim Tarasov in 1989 and equalled byRaphael Holzdeppe in 2008 by an astonishing 10 cm.[47][48] The vault also became a Swedish senior record beating previous mark of 5.87 m set byOscar Janson in 2003 by 3 cm (1 in).[49] 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.[50]
On 23 July, at the2017 European Athletics U20 Championships InGrosseto, 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 aMaksim Tarasov's long standing championship record of 5.60 m set in 1989.[51]
On 12 January, Duplantis began his 2018 season with an indoor personal record by clearing5.83 m (19 ft1+1⁄2 in) at thePole Vault Summit inReno, Nevada.[52] The 5.83 m jump could have been ratified as aworld indoor junior record if not for violation of some overlooked IAAF rules. In 2003, the IAAF changed the standard length of the pegs that the pole-vaulting crossbar rests on from 75 mm to 55 mm. Performances in the elite men's competition at the summit were invalidated two days later when it was discovered that 75 mm crossbar pegs were used on the pit for the men's elite competition instead of 55 mm mandated by IAAF. The elite women on a separate pit pole vaulted with the correct 55 mm pegs. In addition, IAAF was unable to ratify the 5.83 m record because on-site doping control was absent in a similar reason IAAF did not ratify his best indoor mark of 5.82 m last year at theNew Balance Nationals Indoor event. IAAF rule requires an immediate test on site. Although Duplantis submitted to a drug test administered by aUSADA official, it was only done the next morning and not at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center where the meet was held.[53][46][43]
On 25 February, at theAll Star Perche pole vault meeting in the central French city ofClermont-Ferrand, Duplantis vaulted5.88 m (19 ft3+1⁄2 in) vault to better the pendingworld U20 indoor record of 5.78 m set byEmmanouil Karalis ofGreece 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.[54][45]
On 27 March, Duplantis was granted a one-time waiver of bylaw 6.1.3 in theLHSAA handbook by the state association to compete in the elite men's pole vault section of theTexas 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 theTexas Relays elite pole vault event wearingLafayette High School colors only to find out later about a possible violation of the LHSAA rule. He won that event with aworld U20 record of 5.90 m.[55][56][57]
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At the2018 World U20 Championship held from 10 to 15 July inTampere, Finland, Duplantis won gold and broke the championship record with a vault of 5.82 m (19 ft 11⁄8 in).[58]
On 12 August, Duplantis set a world U20 record of 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) at the2018 European Athletics Championships inBerlin, 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 and 275 days, to win a men's field event in the 84-year history of the championship[59][60] and also the youngest ever to join the exclusive 6.00 m club. EvenSergey 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.[61]
Duplantis enrolled at Louisiana State University in 2018. During his freshman year at LSU in 2019, Duplantis competed 10 times in the pole vault event. He set both the indoor and outdoor collegiate records,[62] won indoor and outdoorSEC Championships titles, and won the NCAA Division I indoor title. The only defeat of his collegiate career came at theNCAA Division I outdoor championships when he took second place toChris Nilsen.[23][12]
On 22 February 2019, day 1 of the SEC Indoor Championships at theRandal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Duplantis set a newcollegiate indoor record of 5.92 m to claim gold in the event. The previous record was 5.91 m set byShawn Barber ofUniversity 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.[63] On 21 February 2020, Duplantis' indoor collegiate record was surpassed by Chris Nilsen when he jumped 5.93 m.[64]
On 11 May 2019, Duplantis cleared 6.00 m at the SEC Outdoor Championships inFayetteville,Arkansans., to set a new outdoor collegiate record. In the process, Duplantis helpedLSU Tigers win its first SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championship since 1990 edgingFlorida Gators 105–95.[62][65]
In June 2019, Duplantis announced that he was turning professional, thereby forgoing his remaining NCAA eligibility.[23] Duplantis could have turned professional in 2018, but one year of university at LSU was agreed between the LSU coaches and his parents.[12]
On 24 August 2019, Duplantis cleared 6.00 m (19 ft 8 in) to equal his season's best to take gold in theFinnkampen (an annual international athletics competition between Sweden and Finland) held in Stockholm, Sweden as hosts Sweden beat Finland in both the men's and women's competition.[66] Duplantis' 6.00 m vault broke the competition record of 5.85 m held byPatrik Kristiansson since 2002.[67] His teammateMelker Svärd Jacobsson came in second with a clearance of 5.36 m.[citation needed]
On 1 October, Duplantisplaced second at the2019 IAAF World Championships inDoha, Qatar, clearing 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in) on his third attempt.[68]
On 4 February 2020, Duplantis cleared 6.00 m (19 ft 8 in) indoors at his first competition of the season inDüsseldorf, Germany. He followed that up with three attempts at a new world record of 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in). On his second attempt, he cleared the bar but brushed it off with his arm on the way back down.[69]
On 8 February, Duplantis brokeRenaud Lavillenie's almost-six-year-oldworld record with a jump of 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in) at a World Athletics Indoor Tour Meeting inToruń, Poland.[70][71] A week later, on 15 February at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix inGlasgow, he increased the record by another centimeter to6.18 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in).[72][73]
On 19 February, Duplantis won theMeeting Hauts de France Pas de Calais inLiévin, France by clearing 6.07 m (19 ft 11 in), after which he made three unsuccessful attempts at the new world record height of6.19 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in).[74] A few days later, on 23 February, he won theAll Star Perche inClermont-Ferrand, France by clearing6.01 m (19 ft8+1⁄2 in) in his last indoor competition for the season, which ended with new unsuccessful attempts at6.19 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in).[75] 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.[76] This streak was surpassed by himself in 2022 when he won six successive indoor competitions at 6.00 m or higher.[citation needed]
On 21 February, after the seventh and final Gold level meeting of the2020 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 firstWorld Athletics Indoor Tour title.[77][78]
On 17 September at the Rome Golden Gala Pietro MenneaDiamond League, Duplantis brokeSergey Bubka's outdoor world best of6.14 m (20 ft1+1⁄2 in), with a second-attempt clearance of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in). 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. An official world record can be set in a facility either "with or without (a) 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 at6.18 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in) from his indoor clearance in February 2020.[79]
On 6 March, Duplantis competed at the 2021European Indoor Championships. He was the overwhelming favourite to win the title after the late withdrawal ofRenaud Lavillenie with injury.[80] Duplantis was still tested byPiotr Lisek and Lavillenie's younger brotherValentin, who went on to claim bronze and silver respectively — the latter with a personal best. Duplantis however set a new championship record of 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) before making three unsuccessful attempts at6.19 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in), his second narrowly missing the world record.[81]
At the one-year delayed2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won a gold medal when he cleared a height of 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in) on his first effort, and afterwards got very close to beating his own world record.[82] Silver medalistChris Nilsen was full of praise for the winner. He compared the competition against Duplantis that evening as being a regularfootballer "trying to emulateLionel Messi orCristiano Ronaldo" and that his superiority over the world's best pole vaulters was "impressive and ridiculous."[83]
On 17 January, still only 22 and having won the award previously in 2019 and 2021, Duplantis was crowned Sportsman of the Year for the third time at theSwedish Sports Awards ceremony for his achievements in 2021. Duplantis won the European indoor and Olympic gold medals and cleared 6.00 m or higher in 12 of his 17 competitions in 2021.[84]
On 7 March, he beat his own world record by jumping6.19 m (20 ft3+1⁄2 in) at theBelgrade Indoor Meeting.[85] Two weeks later, at the2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, he won the gold medal. At the same time, he broke his world record yet again, by jumping 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in).[86][87][88]
On 30 June, at theBAUHAUS-galan, Duplantis broke his own outdoor world best of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in) set in 2020, by jumping6.16 m (20 ft2+1⁄2 in).[89]
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On 24 July, he broke his own world record yet again to win gold, at the2022 World Athletics Championships inEugene, Oregon by recording a jump of6.21 m (20 ft4+1⁄2 in).[90] Though this was Duplantis' fifth world record, it was the first time that he had broken a world record outdoors.[91]
At the2022 European Championships held inMunich, he won gold and broke the championship record with a jump of6.06 m (19 ft10+1⁄2 in).[92]
Duplantis capped his season in September by clearing 6.07 m (19 ft 11 in) at theZürichDiamond League final to retain the Diamond Trophy.[93]
On the back of three world records, two global titles, aDiamond League trophy, winning 18 of his 19 competitions and 23 six meters or higher jumps in one season, Duplantis was named 2022World Athlete of the Year byWorld Athletics on 6 December.[94]
Duplantis got his 2023 campaign off to strong start at the Mondo Classic inUppsala, the meet named after his nickname. His winning height of 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) represented not only his best ever season opener but also the highest season-opening performance of any pole vaulter in history. He also broke Bubka's record of 11 vaults of 6.10 m or higher (including indoors and outdoors).[95]
On 25 February at theAll Star Perche indoor meeting inClermont-Ferrand, France, Duplantis broke the world record again, clearing 6.22 m (20 ft 5 in) to increase the number of his career six-metre-plus jumps to 60.[96][97] On 26 August 2023, Duplantis defended his world title at the2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a winning jump of 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in).[98]
On 17 September, he broke his own world record when he cleared 6.23 m (20 ft 5 1/4 in) at thePrefontaine Classic inEugene, Oregon.[99][100]
On 11 December, Duplantis emerged as the first recipient of theWorld Athlete of the Year (Men's field) award fromWorld 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.[101]
At the2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships inGlasgow, in March, Duplantis made a vault of 6.05 m, winning the gold medal.[102]
On 26 February,[103] 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 prestigiousLaureus World Sportsman of the Year award for 2024 (Djokovic won).[104]
On 20 April, at theXiamen Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, the first stage of the2024 Diamond League, Duplantis improved his world record by one centimeter, clearing 6.24 m on his first attempt.[105][106][107]
On 12 June, he won the2024 European Championships inRome, 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.[108] 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.[109]
On 5 August, at theParis Olympics, Duplantis retained his Olympic title from2020. He won with a jump of 6.00 m, afterSam Kendricks failed to clear higher than 5.95 m. He then jumped 6.10 m to break the Olympic record set byThiago Braz at the2016 Olympics and finally jumped 6.25 m, on his third attempt at that height, setting a new world record. In a repeat of the2024 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.[110]
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 AmericanBob Richards, who won in the1952 Helsinki Games and the1956 Melbourne Games. Duplantis and Richards are the only men's pole vaulters with two Olympic golds in the event.[111]
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.[5] His accomplishments representing Sweden at major global and continental championships are unparalleled.[112] 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 the2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, a 6.21 m clearance at the2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon and his latest 6.25 m clearance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[113]
His dominance in the event has drawn comparison to legends in other sports.[114]The New York Times reported that Duplantis is to pole vaulting whatUsain Bolt was to sprinting;Michael Phelps to swimming;Simone Biles to gymnastics.[115] Duplantis' supremacy in the pole vault is so overwhelming that he often wins meets by almost 1 foot (30 cm), in a sport where medals are often won by margins of a centimeter.[116] He has won all of his competition events since the2023 Herculis, aDiamond League event in Monaco.[15] By winning a second straight Olympic gold medal and breaking the record for the ninth time — each time by one centimeter — Duplantis has been called thegreatest pole vaulter of all time.[5][117] Prior to the Paris Olympics, retired Ukrainian pole vaulterSergey Bubka had been considered the sport's all-time greatest.[118]
On 25 August, at theKamila Skolimowska Memorial inChorzów, Poland, the twelfth stop on the2024 Diamond League, Duplantis improved his world record for the tenth time in his career and the third time in 2024 by one centimeter, increasing the world record to 6.26 m.[119][120] The men's pole vault event at theSilesian Stadium saw two other jumpers (Sam Kendricks of the US and Greece'sEmmanouil 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.[121]
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'sDaniel 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.[121]
On 4 September, the day before theZürich Diamond League, Duplantis competed in an exhibition100 m event against400 m hurdles world record holderKarsten Warholm. Duplantis won in a new personal best of 10.37 seconds, while Warholm finished second in 10.47 seconds, also a personal best.[122][123]
On 13 September, Duplantis rounded off his 2024 campaign with a fourth consecutive Diamond League trophy at the2024 final in Brussels, winning the competition with a meet record of 6.11 m.[124]
On 26 Oct, Duplantis was crowned men'sEuropean Athlete of the Year for the first time outright having previously shared the award with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2022.[125]
On 6 November, Duplantis joined a network of sports stars such as Brazilian footballerNeymar Jr and Norwegian hurdlerKarsten Warholm to become global ambassabor for theWings for Life World Run charity event to be held on 4 May 2025 to raise funds for spinal cord injury research.[126]
On 28 February, Duplantis broke his own world record for the 11th time at theAll Star Perche inClermont-Ferrand, France. After securing victory at the competition with a 6.07 m clearance, Duplantis raised the bar to 6.27 m and cleared it in his first attempt.[113] His debut song "Bop", released just in time for the pole vault meeting, was being played at the arena when he made the world record jump.[127]
In a conversation withPuma'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.[128]
On 22 March, Duplantis won theWorld Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing with a winning height of 6.15 m to register a hat-trick of world indoor titles. Duplantis was pushed all the way by Greece'sEmmanouil Karalis, who cleared a height of 6.05 m. In another era, Karalis would have comfortably been crowned a world champion indoors. However, at Nanjing, he became the only man in a championship final to clear a height of 6.05 m and not win gold.[129]
Going into the defence of his world indoor title atNanjing, Duplantis had a total of 98 clearances over six meters.[130][131][132] With four clearances of 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 holderSergey Bubka with a career total of 46 clearances of six metres or more.[129][133]
On 21 April, Duplantis won the2025 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year to became only the second track-and-field athlete to win the award, afterUsain Bolt, and the only field athlete to do so.[134] The award came after a third consecutive nomination and fourth nomination overall, having been previously nominated for the award in 2021, 2023 and 2024.[135][136]
On 15 June, Duplantis set a further world record, his 12th overall and his fourth in a Diamond League meeting,[137] with a first time clearance of 6.28 m at thehome Diamond League meeting held inStockholm Olympic Stadium.[138] 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,[139] fulfilling a missing piece of achievement in his list of accolades.[140]
Duplantis' 12th world record at the historic Stockholm Olympic Stadium, once the venue of the1912 Summer Olympics, was the first time a world record in pole vault has been set at the stadium. The stadium has seen more athletic world records broken than any other stadium in the world, with a total of 83 set between 1912 and 2008 but none of the 83 previous world records set at the stadium were in pole vault.[141] The last Swedish athlete who broke a world record at theBAUHAUS-galan meet within the stadium ground wasPatrik Sjöberg, who set the high jump world record in 1987. Then Duplantis' mother was present in the stadium's stands too.[142][143]
As a tradition of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Duplantis' name was etched onto the walls of the "Stadion Walk of Fame" to commemorate his achievement of breaking world record within its grounds.[144][142]
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.[145][146] Overall, he has notched up a total of 39 Diamond League meet wins since his Diamond League debut in 2017, surpassingRenand Lavillenie's total of 37 wins.[147] He has competed in 93 events since 2020, losing only 4 times, none of which have come outside of Diamond League meets.[148]
On 11 July, Duplantis won at theMonaco Diamond League in a new meet record of 6.05 m, erasing the previous record of 6.02 m set in 2019 by Poland'sPiotr Lisek. With another Diamond League meet record under his belt, Duplantis moved closer to a clean sweep, as he now holds the meet records in 13 out of the 15 different stops of the2025 edition of the Diamond League series.[149] The remaining two stops areRabat's meet record of 5.86 m, held bySam Kendricks, andLondon's meet record of 6.03 m, held byRenaud Lavillenie.[150]
On 12 August, Duplantis set his 13th world record with a 6.29 m clearance atGyulai István Memorial – aWorld Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Budapest. This was the first world record ever set in the 15-year history of the Gyulai István Memorial. The 6.29 m mark erased the Hungarian all-comers' record of 6.10 m Duplantis set at the samestadium where he won his second world title at the2023 World Championships.[151][152] In a light hearted moment,Puma, Duplantis' main sponsor which pays him a bonus for each of his world records, reacted to his 13th world record with a sarcastic comment onInstagram: 'Please give us a rest'.[153]
On 13 August, Duplantis was appointed by World Athletics as the inaugural Ultimate Star to the first edition ofWorld Athletics Ultimate Championship slated to be held in Budapest 11–13 September 2026. The new global event would be an exclusive, biennial season-ending track and field meet for even years when aWorld Outdoor Championships is not held. World Athletics later namedUsain Bolt as its Ultimate Legend[154] Duplantis, along with Bolt, would help promote the inaugural championship in their respective roles.[155]
On 27 August, Duplantis won the Diamond League crown for the fifth time in a row at the2025 Zürich Diamond League final meeting, inching closer to the seven titles won by French pole vaulterRenaud Lavillenie and American triple-jumperChristian Taylor.[156] Duplantis' winning height of 6.00 m was his 118th clearance at 6 m and above.[157]
On 15 September at the2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Duplantis won his third consecutive world title inpole vault. He sealed his title with a 6.15 m clearance in the highest quality men's pole vault final in a global championship ever where seven men cleared 5.90 m or higher in a single competition,[158] then continued to set a new world record of 6.30 m. He soared to his 14th world record of his career on his final attempt. The 6.30 m mark is Duplantis' fourth world record in 2025, the most number of times he has improved the mark during a single year in his career.[159]
Duplantis revealed later that his dad and coach Greg Duplantis had made the call for him to use a stiffer pole for the third attempt at 6.30m to optimise his elevation. His earlier attempts at 6.30 m were made using the same pole he had used for his previous world records from 6.20 m to 6.29 m.[141]
On 26 October, Duplantis was named 2025European Athlete of the Year; his third time winning the award, a feat which has only previously been achieved by Great Britain’sMo Farah.[160]
In July 2020, Duplantis received theVictoria Award, Sweden's highest sporting accolade.[161] In December that year, he was awarded theSvenska Dagbladet Gold Medal or Bragdguldet for "the most significant Swedish sports achievement of the year,"[162] and in early 2021,[163] theJerring Award, recognizing him as the most popular athlete in Sweden that year; Duplantis expressed relief that the Swedish public had accepted and embraced him.[164][165][33]
At the 2021Swedish 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 theSwedish 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.[166]
Duplantis has won a number ofawards 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 byLetsile Tebogo ofBotswana. He has also wonsimilar accolades from European Athletics Association. They included a Rising Star of the Year award in 2018 and three-time Athlete of the Year award in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Duplantis was named 2024BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year.[167] Duplantis was the recipient of the inauguralSports Journalists' Association (SJA) International Sportsperson of the Year award in November 2025.[168]
Encouraged by his mother, Duplantis took extensive lessons overSkype in order to improve his Swedish language fluency, and by 2020, felt that he understood native speech much better and faster than he could in the past. His mother claimed at the same time that while Duplantis felt shy about speaking Swedish in public, he was very happy to do so in private, where there was less pressure.[169][170] By 2021, after winning Olympic gold in Tokyo, his knowledge of the language had improved to the point that he felt comfortable giving interviews fully in Swedish.[171] Previously, Duplantis had lamented that improving his Swedish had been somewhat hampered by the high level of English skills in Sweden, which has led to native speakers preferring to speak English when talking with him.[172]
Duplantis usually divides his year between winters in Louisiana and summers inUppsala in Sweden, adapted for when the two climates offer the best possibilities for training. The municipality ofAvesta, where Duplantis's mother was raised, erected a pole vault bar beside the giganticDala horse monument to showcase the height of his world record,[173] something that made Duplantis "break down in tears" over the significance of what he had accomplished when he heard about it.[174] In October 2025,Stockholm Arlanda Airport added Duplantis to its iconic “Welcome to my hometown” portrait gallery, a feature in the airport's baggage halls that has greeted travellers for since its launch in 2005. The gallery honours people who have made outstanding contributions to the Stockholm and Uppsala regions in areas such as sport, culture, innovation, and business.[175]
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 forVogue Scandinavia in the seaside resortThe Hamptons in New York.[176]
Duplantis released his first single, "Bop", under the name Mondo on 28 February 2025, which he wrote withEmil Berg and Rasmus Wahlberg.[177][178] The three have written around 30 songs together, with two or three additional singles planned for release later in the year.[178][179] "Bop" charted at number 31 on thesingles chart in Sweden.[180] He released his second single, "4L", in June 2025.[181]
Information fromWorld Athletics profile.[15]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Result | Notes |
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| 2015 | World U18 Championships | Cali, Colombia | 1st | 5.30 m | CR[35] |
| 2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 3rd | 5.45 m | [182] |
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 1st | 5.65 m | CR[51] |
| World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 9th | 5.50 m | [183] | |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 7th | 5.70 mi | [184] |
| World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 1st | 5.82 m | CR[58] | |
| European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | 6.05 m | CRWU20R[61] | |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 2nd | 5.97 m | [68] |
| 2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 1st | 6.05 m i | CR[80] |
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | 6.02 m | [185] | |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 6.20 m i | WRCR[87] |
| World Championships | Eugene, United States | 1st | 6.21 m | WRCR[90] | |
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 1st | 6.06 m | CR[92] | |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | 6.10 m | [98] |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1st | 6.05 m i | [102] |
| European Championships | Rome, Italy | 1st | 6.10 m | CR[108] | |
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 1st | 6.25 m | WROR[110] | |
| 2025 | World Indoor Championships | Nanjing, China | 1st | 6.15 m i | [186] |
| World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | 6.30 m | WR |
| Year | Age | Height | World age best | Notes | Meeting | Location | Date |
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| 2006 | 6 | 1.67 | No data | ||||
| 2007 | 7 | 2.33 | X | ||||
| 2008 | 8 | 2.89 | X | ||||
| 2009 | 9 | 3.20 | X | ||||
| 2010 | 10 | 3.86 | X | ||||
| 2011 | 11 | 3.91 | X | ||||
| 2012 | 12 | 3.97i | X | ||||
| 2013 | 13 | 4.15 | |||||
| 2014 | 14 | 4.75i | |||||
| 2015 | 15 | 5.30 | [35] | World Youth Championships | Cali, Colombia | 19 July | |
| 2016 | 16 | 5.51 | [192] | SM-Veckan Sommar | Norrköping, Sweden | 13 July | |
| 2017 | 17 | 5.90 | X | WU20R[47] | Texas Relays | Austin, Texas, United States | 1 April |
| 2018 | 18 | 6.05 | X | WU20R[61] | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 12 August |
| 2019 | 19 | 6.00 | CR[194] | SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships | Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States | 11 May | |
| [66] | Finnkampen | Stockholm, Sweden | 24 August | ||||
| 2020 | 20 | 6.17i | WR #1 WU23B WITR | Copernicus Cup | Toruń, Poland | 8 February | |
| 6.18i | X | WR #2WU23B WITR | Müller Indoor Grand Prix | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 15 February | ||
| 6.15 | DLRWU23B[79] | Golden Gala | Rome, Italy | 17 September | |||
| 2021 | 21 | 6.10i | [195] | Serbian Open Indoor Meeting | Belgrade, Serbia | 24 February | |
| 6.10 | [196] | Fanny Blankers-Koen Games | Hengelo, Netherlands | 6 June | |||
| 2022 | 22 | 6.19i | WR #3 | Belgrade Indoor Meeting | Belgrade, Serbia | 7 March | |
| 6.20i | WR #4CR | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 20 March | |||
| 6.16 | DLR[89] | BAUHAUS-galan | Stockholm, Sweden | 30 June | |||
| 6.21 | X | WR #5CR | World Championships | Eugene, Oregon, United States | 4 July | ||
| 2023 | 23 | 6.22i | WR #6 WITR | All Star Perche | Clermont-Ferrand, France | 25 February | |
| 6.23 | X | WR #7 DLR | Prefontaine Classic | Eugene, Oregon, United States | 17 September | ||
| 2024 | 24 | 6.24 | WR #8 DLR | Xiamen Diamond League | Xiamen, China | 20 April | |
| 6.25 | WR #9OR | Olympic Games | Saint-Denis, France | 5 August | |||
| 6.26 | X | WR #10 DLR | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | Chorzów, Poland | 25 August | ||
| 2025 | 25 | 6.27i | WR #11WITR | All Star Perche | Clermont-Ferrand, France | 28 February | |
| 6.28 | WR #12DLR | BAUHAUS-galan | Stockholm, Sweden | 15 June | |||
| 6.29 | WR #13 | Gyulai István Memorial | Budapest, Hungary | 12 August | |||
| 6.30 | X | WR #14 | Tokyo National Stadium | Tokyo, Japan | 15 September | ||
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| SWE [228] | |||
| "Bop" | 2025 | 31 | Non-album singles |
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