The best pole vaulter of all time has done it again. Just 20 days after winning Olympic gold and setting a new world record along the way, Armand Duplantis has literally raised the bar once more.
At the Silesia Diamond League meeting in the Polish city of Chorzów on Sunday, Duplantis jumped an unprecedented 6.26 meters — 1 centimeter higher than his widely-celebrated 6.25-meter world record at the Paris Olympics earlier this month. The jump marks the 10th straight time “Mondo” has set a new pole vault mark.
Duplantis, who was born in Louisiana but competes for Sweden, first broke the world record in February 2020 with a 6.17-meter
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