Armand Duplantis, the legend continues: it’s still a world record!

Another centimeter added to the legend: late Tuesday afternoon at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Budapest, Armand Duplantis retouched the world record in pole vault for the umpteenth time, taking the new record to 6.29. The Swedish athlete, who also holds the indoor record with a measurement of 6.27, thus confirmed himself as one of the greatest performers in the history of the discipline.

Only in 2025, today&#8217s is the third time that ‘Mondo’, as the Swedish athlete born in 1999 is nicknamed, has updated the overall record: he jumped 6.27 indoors in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Feb. 28, while on June 15 he also broke the outdoor record again, jumping 6.28 in Stockholm, in front of his audience.

Duplantis had first broken the world record by jumping 6.17 in Torun, Poland, at an indoor meeting on Feb. 8, 2020: on that occasion he broke the previous record of 6.16, set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie also at an indoor event in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Feb. 15, 2014.

Since then Armand Duplantis has updated the world record twelve times, always improving it inch by inch. His 6.21 clocked in Eugene, U.S., on July 24, 2022 had erased from the outdoor record book the legendary measurement of Sergei Bubka, who jumped 6.14 on July 31, 1994 in Sestriere, Italy, a measurement that only until a very few years ago seemed truly unreplicable.