Armand Gustav “Mondo” Duplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter and the current world record holder with a height of 6.21 meters and the current Olympic champion and World champion.
Armand Duplantis was born on November 10, 1999 (age 22 years), in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. Armand Duplantis comes from a family of great athletes, his father, Greg Duplantis, is a former pole vaulter. While his mother Helena (née Hedlund) is a former heptathlete and volleyball player. He has three other siblings, named, Johanna Duplantis, Antoine Duplantis, and Andreas Duplantis.
Armand Duplantis has his parents as coaches who keep him in training every day.
Does Armand Duplantis speak Swedish?
As a young boy growing up in an English-speaking household, Duplantis learned adequate Swedish as his second language.
His mother had encouraged him to learn and speak the language. Duplantis had taken extensive lessons over Skype to improve his fluency, he felt that he understood his native, and could even have a faster speech much better than he had done in the past.
How many languages can Armand Duplantis speak?
Armand Duplantis can speak both English and Swedish fluently.
