Armand Duplantis sets 13th pole vault WR — All instances of Mondo breaking the world record
The 25-year-old had won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics 2024 by clearing a record 6.25m. He has bettered the World Record four times since.
Mondo first leapt past the world record in 2020 when cleared 6.17 metres in Torun, Poland, bettering Renaud Lavillenie's 6.14 from 2014.
He now equals Sergey Bubka, of the erstwhile Soviet Union, who has broken the world record more number of times (13).
ALL RECORDS BROKEN BY ARMAND DUPLANTIS
Mark (in metres) Venue Date 6.27 Clermont-Ferrand, France February 28, 2025 6.26 Chorzów, Poland August 25, 2024 6.25 Paris, France August 5, 2024 6.24 Xiamen, China April 20, 2024 6.23 Eugene, U.S. September 17, 2023 6.22 Clermont-Ferrand, France February 25, 2023 6.21 Eugene, U.S. July 24, 2022 6.20 Belgrade, Serbia March 20, 2022 6.19 Belgrade, Serbia March 7, 2022 6.18 Glasgow, UK February 15, 2020 6.17 Toruń, Poland February 8, 2020
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