Armand Duplantis Records in Timeline After Swede Pole Vaulter Sets New Heights With Gold At Paris Olympics 2024

Armand Duplantis continued his record-breaking journey with a new height that resulted in his second Olympic gold at the Paris Olympics 2024 on Monday (August 5) at the Stade de France in Paris.

'Mondo' Duplantis, he is fondly called, broke his own record after he beat USA's Sam Kendrick by quite a distance to clinch his second successive gold at the Olympic Games. On route to the yellow metal Duplantis broke two records.

Duplantis first broke the Olympic record held by Brazil's Thiago, who had cleared 6.03m in Rio 2016. The athlete from Sweden then crossed 6.25m, eclipsing his previou world record, while the rest of the field did not even hit the 6m mark in Paris.

Hitting 6m-mark was something unheard of until former Russian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka cleared the distance back in 1985. Till then, Thierry Vigneron of France and Bubka battled in the 5.9m heights.

The Soviet Union athlete also went that extra step to cross the 6.10m distance and held the record until former French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie surpassed the distance in 2014 with a 6.16m jump. Then arrived Duplantis, who has been blowing away records for fun.

As Duplantis breaks his own record with the latest leap in Paris Olympic Games, here is a look at when the record-breaking spree started for the Swede and what are the distances he achieved in which events:

Armand Duplantis Records in Time Line

February 8, 2020: 6.17 m
February 15, 2020: 6.18m
March 7, 2022: 6.19m
March 20, 2022: 6.20m
July 24, 2022: 6.21m
February 25, 2023: 6.22m
September 17, 2023: 6.23m
April 24, 2024: 6.24m
August 5, 2024: 6.25m

The 24-year-old needed his third and final attempt in Olympics 2024 final to break the world record for the ninth time in a row. The Swede started his Pole Vault journey back when he was 6-years-old and started breaking records from his under-20 days.

At ages 17 and 18, he broke world under-20 records by crossing 5.95m and 6.05m respectively. In 2020 Olympics he failed to break the record after he had already won the gold medal. Duplantis has won a gold each in the past three World Championships and now two Olympics in Paris and Tokyo.