Dhis is now the real, the real world record: 6.15 meters. Armand Duplantis, the Swedish European champion in pole vault, who was born and raised in Lafayette in the American state of Louisiana, lived up to his nickname “Mondo” on Thursday evening in Rome. In the land where the word stands for the world, this young man turned out to be the pre-eminent pole vaulter in the world and in history.
Finally, finally he surpassed Sergej Bubka’s best performance, the 6.14 meters. The Ukrainian jumped it in Sestrière on July 31, 1994, five and a half years before Duplantis, son of a Swede and an American, was born. The twenty-year-old boy wonder has already flown higher. In February he first increased the world record in Torun (Poland) and then in Glasgow, as recognized by the World Athletics Association, first to 6.17, then to 6.18 meters. He exceeded the indoor best performances of both Bubka (6.15 meters / February 1993 in Donetzk) and the French Renaud Lavillenie (6.16 meters / February 2014 in Dozetzk). However, although the association no longer differentiates between indoors and outdoors, these were performances in the hall, flights under laboratory conditions. Seven months later, Duplantis crowned himself the undisputed ruler of his discipline in Rome. He is European Champion from Berlin 2018; He regards second place at the 2019 World Cup in Doha as a slip-up.
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