1. Armand Duplantis is a two-time Olympic champion, a two-time World outdoor champion and a three-time World indoor champion.
53 Facts About Armand Duplantis
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Armand Duplantis won titles as a 15-year-old at the 2015 World Youth Championships.
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Armand Duplantis is one of the very few athletes in history to win World Championships titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of the athletics event.
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Armand Duplantis is a three-time European champion from 2018, when he set the current world under-20 record, and from 2022 and 2024.
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Armand Duplantis was the 2021 European Indoor Championships gold medalist and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Duplantis won his first Olympic gold medal.
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Armand Duplantis is a four-time Diamond League Champion, having qualified for and won the pole vault Diamond League Final event in four consecutive years, from 2021 to 2024.
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Armand Duplantis has cleared six metres or higher in competition more times than any athlete in history, including the eleven highest heights of all time.
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Armand Gustav Duplantis was born on 10 November 1999 into an athletic family in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.
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Armand Duplantis grew up primarily speaking English, but learned Swedish as a second language.
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Armand Duplantis graduated from Lafayette High School in 2018 and, like his parents and brothers before him, attended Louisiana State University, though he left in 2019 after his first year in order to turn professional.
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Armand Duplantis first tried pole vaulting as a four-year-old at the family's home in Lafayette, Louisiana, and took to the event rapidly.
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Armand Duplantis' nickname "Mondo" was given to him at a very young age by his father's best friend who is an Italian from Sicily.
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Armand Duplantis's nickname stuck with him since then perhaps as a foreshadowing of his world domination and record breaking performance in his sport later in his professional career.
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In June 2015, Armand Duplantis announced that he would compete for Sweden.
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Armand Duplantis has said that his older brother's great experiences representing Sweden at a youth level, as well as his own love for Sweden as a child made the decision to play for Sweden very easy, but that he nonetheless still feels a strong bond to Lafayette.
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On 23 July, at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships In Grosseto, Italy, Armand Duplantis set a pole vault championship record of 5.65 m to win gold.
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Armand Duplantis won the competition on just his second jump of the competition by clearing 5.55 m on his first attempt.
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Armand Duplantis then set the bar to 5.65 m and on his third attempt, he soared over the bar to break a Maksim Tarasov's long standing championship record of 5.60 m set in 1989.
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Armand Duplantis set both the indoor and outdoor collegiate records, won indoor and outdoor SEC Championships titles, and won the NCAA Division I indoor title.
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In June 2019, Armand Duplantis announced that he was turning professional, thereby foregoing his remaining NCAA eligibility.
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Armand Duplantis ended his 2020 indoor season by becoming the first man in history to put together five consecutive indoor competitions at 6.00 m or higher.
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On 21 February, after the seventh and final Gold level meeting of the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour series in Madrid ended, Armand Duplantis emerged as the overall winner of the 2020 World Indoor Tour after securing a total of 36 points from his best three results from the tour.
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On 6 March, Armand Duplantis competed at the 2021 European Indoor Championships.
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Armand Duplantis was the overwhelming favourite to win the title after the late withdrawal of Renaud Lavillenie with injury.
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On 17 January, still only 22 and having won the award previously in 2019 and 2021, Armand Duplantis was crowned Sportsman of the Year for the third time at the Swedish Sports Awards ceremony for his achievements in 2021.
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Armand Duplantis won the European indoor and Olympic gold medals and cleared 6.00 m or higher in 12 of his 17 competitions in 2021.
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Armand Duplantis got his 2023 campaign off to strong start at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, the meet named after his nickname.
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Armand Duplantis broke Bubka's record of 11 vaults of 6.10 m or higher.
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At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, in March, Armand Duplantis made a vault of 6.05 m, winning the gold medal.
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On 26 February, for a second year in a row and a third time in his career, Armand Duplantis was nominated, along with Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, Erling Haaland, Noah Lyles, and Max Verstappen, for the prestigious Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award for 2024.
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On 20 April, at the Xiamen Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, the first stage of the 2024 Diamond League, Armand Duplantis improved his world record by one centimeter, clearing 6.24 m on his first attempt.
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On 5 August, at the Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis retained his Olympic title from 2020.
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Armand Duplantis won with a jump of 6.00 m, after Sam Kendricks failed to clear higher than 5.95 m Armand Duplantis then jumped 6.10 m to break the Olympic record set by Thiago Braz at the 2016 Olympics and finally jumped 6.25 m, on his third attempt at that height, setting a new world record.
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Armand Duplantis's accomplishments representing Sweden at major global and contitental championships are unparalleled.
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The New York Times reported that Armand Duplantis is to pole vaulting what Usain Bolt was to sprinting; Michael Phelps to swimming; Simone Biles to gymnastics.
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Armand Duplantis's consistency has been unmatched having won all his competition events since July 2023 when the super Swede last tasted defeat at a Diamond League event in Monaco.
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Armand Duplantis was expected to win the inaugural MVP award.
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Armand Duplantis turned out to be the first MVP of the meeting and took home a sparkling 14-carat gold diamond-encrusted 'Champion Ring' worth $10,000, along with a cheque for the same amount.
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Armand Duplantis won in a new personal best of 10.37 seconds, while Warholm finished second in 10.47 seconds, a personal best.
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On 26 Oct, Armand Duplantis was crowned men's European Athlete of the Year for the first time outright having previously shared the award with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2022.
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On 6 November, Armand Duplantis joined a network of sports stars such as Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr and Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm to become global ambassabor for the Wings for Life World Run charity event to be held on 4 May 2025 to raise funds for spinal cord injury research.
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In July 2020, Armand Duplantis received the Victoria Award, Sweden's highest sporting accolade.
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In December that year, he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal or Bragdguldet for "the most significant Swedish sports achievement of the year," and in early 2021, the Jerring Award, recognizing him as the most popular athlete in Sweden that year; Armand Duplantis expressed relief that the Swedish public had accepted and embraced him.
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At the 2021 Swedish Sports Awards Gala held on 18 January, Armand Duplantis received a total of four awards.
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Besides the Bragdguldet announced earlier in December 2020, Armand Duplantis took away the Radiosporten's Jerring Award and the Swedish Sports Academy's Sportsman of the Year and the Performance of the Year awards, his second for both awards.
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Armand Duplantis has won a number of awards from World Athletics.
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Armand Duplantis has won similar accolades from European Athletics Association.
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Armand Duplantis was named 2024 BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year.
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Armand Duplantis's mother claimed at the same time that while Duplantis felt shy about speaking Swedish in public, he was very happy to do so in private, where there was less pressure.
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Previously, Armand Duplantis had lamented that improving his Swedish had been somewhat hampered by the high level of English skills in Sweden, which has led to native speakers preferring to speak English when talking with him.
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The municipality of Avesta, where Armand Duplantis's mother was raised, erected a pole vault bar beside the gigantic Dala horse monument to showcase the height of his world record, something that made Armand Duplantis "break down in tears" over the significance of what he had accomplished when he heard about it.
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Armand Duplantis is currently dating Swedish model and content creator Desire Inglander, whom he met at a midsummer party in Sweden in 2020.
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Armand Duplantis released his first single, "Bop", under the name Mondo on 28 February 2025, which he wrote with Emil Berg and Rasmus Wahlberg.