+ European Championship in Berlin 2018
Duplantis came to the championship as the new star on the pole vault scene. In an incredible final where he broke his personal record three times, he defeated Russian Timur Morgunov and childhood idol Renaud Lavillenie, France. The winning height was finally 6,05 – a new junior world and Swedish record.
I knew at 5,95 that I had to take everything in the first attempt to win. And I accepted the challenge, I thought I'd do everything to win, said Duplantis.
+ Indoor European Championship in Torun 2021
After breaking the world record earlier in the season, Duplantis came to Torun as the favorite for gold. The Polish city was the place where he set his first world record when he jumped 6,17. It didn't get as high in the European Championship. Like in Berlin, the winning height was 6,05 – a new championship record. He also tried 6,19 but didn't quite make it.
I would have loved to break the record, but it would have been too good to be true. Especially since it was here I took my first world record. It wasn't meant to be today, he said.
+ Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021
Duplantis secured the Olympic gold with faultless jumping over 6,02. After the biggest competitor, American Sam Kendricks, tested positive for covid-19 and missed the final, the Swedish gold was never threatened. Then he put the bar at the world record height of 6,19 – and was only an unlikely rivet away from clearing.
It's my dream since I was a little kid to take a gold medal in the Olympic Games, and now I'm here and have a gold medal, he said after the triumph.
+ Indoor World Championship in Belgrad 2022
World Championship gold and world record in the same competition are few and far between. But in Belgrad, Duplantis got to celebrate twice. The bar wobbled, but stayed put. Duplantis became the first pole vaulter to clear the dream height of 6,20. The gold was basically never threatened. Silver medalist Thiago Braz from Brazil cleared 6,05 at best.
I want to be a guy who can jump high at championships, so that's the picture I've had in my head when I've trained at home in the garden: that I'm at the World Championship and the crowd is cheering, said Duplantis.
+ World Championship in Eugene 2022
In Belgrad, the bar wobbled at 6,20. In Eugene, Duplantis was far over 6,21 – and improved his own world record. After securing the World Championship gold – his first outdoors – when Christopher Nilsen, USA, and Ernest John Obiena, Philippines, and Thiago Braz, Brazil, had riveted out at six meters, he chose to continue jumping.
I didn't think about the record that much. Normally, it's somewhere in the back of my head, but now I was so focused on handling the wind and I really wanted to have the gold. It's the medal I've been missing, he said.
+ European Championship in Munich 2022
On a rainy and chilly Olympic Stadium in Munich, Duplantis won his second outdoor European Championship gold. He cleared 5,95 on the first attempt and secured the gold after German home favorite Bo Kanda Lita Baehre riveted out. There was no world record attempt this championship, however. Duplantis chose to stop after clearing 6,06 – a new championship record.
+ World Championship in Budapest 2023
At the hot Nemzeti Atlétikai Központ, he started where everyone else started the final: at 5,55 meters. Then the jumpers disappeared one by one. At 5,95, there were only five left, and in the later duel with Ernest John Obiena, Philippines, the Swede secured the gold at 6,10 when Obiena stopped at 6,00 after attempts at both 6,05 and 6,10. Duplantis then tried the new world record height of 6,23, was close twice, but had to settle for gold.
+ Indoor World Championship in Glasgow 2024
The world got to see another side of Armand Duplantis. The one who wobbles, the one who stumbles at the edge, but the one who finds balance and ultimately wins the World Championship gold convincingly.
This is the toughest gold medal I've gotten. It's extra special. I value it highly, he said after the drama in Glasgow.
+ European Championship in Rome 2024
European Championship gold, championship record, and extra cash in the form of a bonus – then the plan was that Duplantis wouldn't jump anymore during the European Championship final in Rome. But the star changed his mind and made three attempts at the world record height of 6,25 meters.
Just for fun, he said.
+ Olympic Games in Paris 2024
The crowd at Stade de France chanted "Mondo, Mondo, Mondo" – and the star delivered with a show. He managed his second consecutive Olympic gold after just four jumps and by being the only one over six meters. Then he went for the world record, 6,25. Riveted the first, riveted the second, and cleared the third.
