Three weeks after winning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis continues to make history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old pole vaulter set another world record at the Diamond League Silesia track and field event in Chorzow, Poland.
Duplantis cleared 6.26 meters to win gold and break his own world record for the third time this season. Sunday’s first-place finish marks his fourth consecutive Diamond League gold.
Duplantis, born and raised in Louisiana, competes for Sweden at international level. His father is an American pole vaulter and his mother is a Swedish heptathlete.
The young pole vaulter made a splash at the Olympics, delivering an iconic Paris Olympic celebration en route to winning a gold medal—his second consecutive gold medal, after winning the Olympic title in Tokyo. But after taking first place and breaking an Olympic record in Paris, he didn’t stop there: Duplantis kept going for the record, jumping 6.25 meters, breaking his own record by an inch.
On Sunday, he did it again, breaking his old record by an inch. Duplantis, who turned pro in 2019 after a year at LSU, has now broken the world record 10 times in the past four years of competition. His first was in February 2020, when he set a record of 6.17 at the Copernicus Cup in Torún, Poland.
