Armand Duplantis
b. 1999
Swedish-American pole vaulter (born 1999)
- Born
- 10 Nov 1999 · Lafayette
Life timeline
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- 10 Nov 1999BornBorn in Lafayette
- 2020AwardSportsperson of the Year
- 2025AwardBBC World Sport Star of the Year
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1999 – today).
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2023Gaza war
- 20242024 Summer Olympics
- 20262026 Iran war
Biography
Armand Gustav Duplantis (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɑ̌rman(d) ˈɡɵ̂sːtav dɵˈplânːtɪs]; born 10 November 1999), nicknamed "Mondo", is a Swedish and American pole vaulter who competes for Sweden. Duplantis holds the pole vaulting world record (6.31 m; 20 ft 8 in) and is the winner of ten senior global titles. He is a two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, a three-time World outdoor (2022, 2023 and 2025) champion, a four-time World indoor (2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026) champion and the inaugural 2026 World Ultimate champion.
Born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the 2015 World Youth Championships. A year later, he placed third at the World U20 Championships. In 2017, he took the European U20 title, and the following year, World U20 title. Duplantis is one of the very few athletes in history to win World Championships titles at youth, junior, and senior levels.
Duplantis is a four-time European champion from 2018, when he set the current world under-20 record, and from 2022, 2024 and 2026. European and World Athletics Male Rising Star of the Year in 2018, two years later he was voted World Male Athlete of the Year. He was the 2021 European Indoor Championships gold medalist and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won his first Olympic gold medal. For his 2022 season, which saw him break world records three times, becoming World outdoor and indoor champion, European and Diamond League champion, and clearing six metres or higher 22 times, Duplantis was crowned both European and World Male Athlete of the Year. He continued to shatter his own world record multiple times a year in 2023 (two times), 2024 (three times) and 2025 (four times), including one (6.25 m) at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He became a four-time World Athlete of the Year (2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025) and the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2025. Duplantis is a five-time Diamond League Champion, having qualified for and won the pole vault Diamond League Final event in five consecutive years, from 2021 to 2025.
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