Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record Thursday for the 15th time in his career — the first time he has done so at the Mondo Classic, the meet named after him and held in Uppsala, Sweden. The two-time Olympic champion cleared 6.31 meters at the indoor event dedicated entirely to pole vaulting.
The Swedish star cleared every height without a miss on his way to the record performance. He opened at 5.65 meters, then cleared 5.90 meters and 6.08 meters on his first attempt.
“This is my home. This is our home,” Duplantis said after breaking the record. “That's how it is. And you know that every time I'm on the track, I represent you. And I do it with great pride. I am so proud to have been able to do this in front of you. I jump for myself, I jump for my family, but I also jump for you, for Sweden, and for everyone who supports me.”
Duplantis has now won 38 consecutive competitions since August 2023. During that streak alone, he has broken the world record nine times, including on his third and final attempt at the Paris Olympics and at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo. He set his first world record in February 2020.
Duplantis has chosen to raise the world record by just one centimeter each time he improves it — the same strategy used by Ukrainian legend Sergey Bubka, who maximized bonus prizes by raising the bar by one centimeter repeatedly during the 1980s and 1990s.
Bubka broke the outdoor world record 17 times and the indoor world record 18 times between 1984 and 1994, before World Athletics later decided to unify indoor and outdoor records into a single world record.
Before Duplantis, the world record stood at 6.16 meters, set in 2014 by France’s Renaud Lavillenie.