Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record with 6.31m jump in Sweden
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the 15th time by clearing 6.31 metres at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on Thursday.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist achieved the historic feat at the IFU Arena during an indoor event specifically named in his honour.
The 26-year-old has remarkably increased the global benchmark by the minimum one-centimetre margin on every single occasion he has rewritten the history books.
Rewriting the athletics history books
Before the Swedish superstar began his unprecedented run of form, the ultimate mark stood at 6.16 metres.
That previous standard was set by France’s Renaud Lavillenie, who held the record from 2014 until the phenomenal Scandinavian first surpassed it.
This latest remarkable clearance further cements his status as the undisputed greatest athlete in the history of the discipline.
