Armand Duplantis

Profile Overview

Armand Gustav Duplantis (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɑ̌rman(d) ˈɡɵ̂sːtav dɵˈplânːtɪs]; born 10 November 1999), nicknamed "Mondo", is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Duplantis holds the pole vaulting world record (6.31 m; 20 ft 8 in) and is the winner of nine senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, a three-time World outdoor (2022, 2023 and 2025) champion and a four-time World indoor (2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026) champion.
Born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the 2015 World Youth Championships. A year later, he placed third at the World U20 Championships. In 2017, he took the European 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.
Duplantis is a four-time European champion from 2018, when he set the current world under-20 record, and from 2022, 2024 and 2026. European and World Athletics Male Rising Star of the Year in 2018, two years later he was voted World Male Athlete of the Year. He was the 2021 European Indoor Championships gold medalist and at the 2020 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, Duplantis was crowned both European 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 times), including one (6.25 m) at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He became a four-time World Athlete of the Year (2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025) and the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2025. Duplantis is a five-time Diamond 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, including setting 15 world records. After Renaud 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 6.31 m in 2026. 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 6.05 m at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Duplantis is one of only four men to vault 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) and above, the others being Emmanouil Karalis, Lavillenie and Sergey Bubka. As of September 2026, he accounts for 41 of the 55 competitions where the winning athlete has cleared at least that height: 29 times at outdoor venues and 12 times at indoor venues. Duplantis is widely regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time.