Armand Duplantis

Armand Duplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter who holds the men’s world record and has won Olympic and World Athletics Championship titles.

2020 Summer Olympics: The postponed Tokyo Games held in 2021, where athletes competed across 33 sports. Duplantis won his first Olympic gold medal in the men’s pole vault.
Pole vault: An athletics event in which an athlete uses a flexible pole to clear a crossbar. This is the event in which Duplantis competes and holds the world record.
Greg Duplantis: An American former pole vaulter who coached his son Armand during his development. His father introduced him to pole vaulting and served as a long-time coach.
Pole vault world record: The highest officially ratified clearance in pole vaulting, maintained separately for men and women. Duplantis holds the men’s record and has raised it through successive clearances.
2024 Summer Olympics: The Paris Games, held from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Duplantis defended his Olympic title and set a world record in the pole vault.
Pole vault plant: The action of placing a pole in the planting box while converting an approach into takeoff. Duplantis’s speed and accurately timed plant help him load the pole effectively.
Helena Duplantis: A Swedish former heptathlete and volleyball player, and the mother of Armand Duplantis. Her Swedish background connects to the national identity Duplantis represents in athletics.
Sergey Bubka: A Ukrainian pole vaulter who dominated the event and set numerous world records in the 1980s and 1990s. Bubka’s record-setting era provides a historical comparison for Duplantis’s repeated improvements.
2022 World Athletics Championships: The World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, in July 2022. Duplantis won his first outdoor world title and cleared a world-record height.
Pole vault takeoff: The phase in which a vaulter leaves the ground as the pole begins to bend. A forceful, well-positioned takeoff transfers his approach momentum into the vault.

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