With a height of 6.21 meters (20 feet 4+12 in), Armand Gustav Duplantis holds the record for the pole vault and is also the current Olympic and World champion.
Duplantis owns a variety of age group world records and won gold in the boys’ pole vault at the 2015 World Youth Championships when he was 15 years old.
With a height of 6.05 meters (19 feet 10 inches) (a new under-20s world record), he earned the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships and the silver medal in the 2019 World Championships.
Additionally, Duplantis won the 2020 Diamond League and the 2021 European Indoor Championships, both times setting records. He received the gold medal in 2021 at the
He is a Swedish-American athlete. He won the 2022 Global Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2022 World Athletics Championship to become the world champion in 2022.
Duplantis smashed his own outdoor world record of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in), set in 2020, by leaping 6.16 m (20 ft 2+12 in) on June 30 at BAUHAUS-galan.
At the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on July 24, he once again beat his own world mark by jumping 6.21 meters (20 feet 4+12 inches).
Duplantis won the title of 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.
