Armand Duplantis

Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis (Swedish: Armand Gustav "Mondo" Duplantis, November 10, 1999 -) is a male track and field athlete who was born in the United States and represents Sweden in international competitions. His specialty is pole vault. He is considered to be the best pole vaulter in history. Duplantis is the outdoor and indoor world holder in the pole vault (6.30 meters and 6.22 meters respectively), a 2-time Olympic champion and a 3-time World Track and Field Championship champion. As of September 2025, Duplantis has jumped 6 meters the most times in history, breaking the world record 14 times. After French player Renaud Lavillenie jumped 6.16 meters, the world records from 6.17 meters to 6.30 meters were all set by Duplantis. Duplantis won the 2015 World Junior Athletics Championships as a 15-year-old and finished third at the World U20 Championships the following year. In 2017, he won the European U20 Championship and the World U20 Championship the following year. Duplantis is one of the few athletes in history to win world championships in junior, youth and adult track and field events. Duplantis is a three-time European champion, in 2018 (when he set the current U20 world record), 2022 and 2024. He was named European and World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year in 2018 and World Male Athlete of the Year two years later. He is the gold medalist at the 2021 European Indoor Championships and won his first Olympic gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In the 2022 season, Duplantis broke the world record three times and became the world outdoor and indoor champion, European champion and Diamond League champion. He also jumped 6 meters 22 times in the competition, so he was named European and World Men's Athlete of the Year. Duplantis won four Diamond League championships from 2021 to 2024.