Armand Duplantis

Duplantis achieved national freshman records both indoors and outdoors as a freshman at Lafayette High School in 2015, earning him the title of Gatorade Louisiana Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Duplantis, a citizen of both Sweden and the United States, had the option of competing internationally for either nation. It was disclosed in June 2015 that he had chosen Sweden. In 2015, he made his international debut for Sweden at the World Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia. With a first-attempt clearance of 5.30 meters, he improved his personal best by two centimeters and set a new championship record, earning him the gold on countback.

On February 6, 2016, Duplantis cleared 5.49 m at a high school meet in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, setting a new age-16 world best, world indoor youth best, and national high school indoor record, as well as becoming the first high school athlete to leap 18 feet indoors. Duplantis set the World Indoor Junior Record by jumping 5.75 metres at the Millrose Games on February 11, 2017. Duplantis jumped 5.90 m in the Nike Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on April 1, 2017, breaking his own record and setting a new World Junior Record. Duplantis opened his 2018 season by breaking the World Indoor Junior Record with a jump of 5.83 meters at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada.

At the 2018 European Athletics Championships, Duplantis lowered his indoor record to 5.88 m and soared to a massive 6.05 m. With a 6.05 m vault, he tied for the best second place (outdoors) and the fifth-best overall pole vaulter in history. With a jump of 6.17 meters on February 8 in Toru, Poland, Duplantis surpassed Renaud Lavillenie’s nearly six-year-old world record. He broke his own world mark by leaping 6.19 meters at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting on March 7, 2022. Two weeks later, at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships, he won gold by clearing 6.20m, shattering his world record again again. On July 24, 2022, he smashed his own world mark once more, this time by jumping 6.21 meters at the World Athletics Championships 2022.

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Duplantis was born on November 10, 1999, to an athletic family in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. Greg Duplantis, an American of Cajun and Finnish origin, is a former pole vaulter with a personal best of 5.80 m. His Swedish mother is a former heptathlete and volleyball player. His two older brothers, Andreas and Antoine and his younger sister, Johanna, were all athletes. Andreas competed as a pole vaulter for Sweden at the World Youth Championships in 2009 and the World Junior Championships 2012. Antoine switched from pole vault to baseball in high school before enrolling at Louisiana State University, where he was the team’s career hits leader in 2019.

Duplantis tried pole vaulting for the first time at the age of three and quickly picked up the sport. At the age of seven, he set his first age group world record, and at the age of ten, his leap of 3.86 m eclipsed the previous world records for ages 11 and 12. Duplantis learnt adequate Swedish as a second language while growing up in an English-speaking environment. He took extended Skype sessions to increase his fluency at his mother’s urging. At the same time, his mother asserted that although Duplantis was reluctant to speak Swedish in front of others, he enjoyed doing so in private. After winning the Olympic gold medal in 2021, his proficiency in the language had advanced to the point that he felt at ease speaking in full Swedish during the interviews.