Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis soared over the bar at a new world record height of 6.25m, having already secured gold at Paris 2024 earlier in the evening on Monday, August 5, with a vault of 6.00m.
This marks the ninth time Duplantis has broken the world record, surpassing his previous mark of 6.24m set at the Xiamen Diamond League in April this year.
“I haven’t processed how fantastic that moment was,” Duplantis said after his historic jump. “It’s one of those things that doesn’t really feel real, such an out-of-body experience. It’s still hard to kind of land right now.
“What can I say? I just broke a world record at the Olympics, the biggest possible stage for a pole vaulter. My biggest dream since I was a kid was to break the world record at the Olympics, and I’ve been able to do that in front of the most incredible crowd I’ve ever competed in front of.”
