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Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis set a new pole vault world record by one centimetre on Tuesday, achieving a height of 6.29 metres at the athletics event in Budapest.
The Swedish athlete broke the world record for the 13th time, successfully clearing the bar on his second attempt to surpass his previous record of 6.28m from June in Stockholm.
At just 25 years old, this was Duplantis’s third record of 2025, having previously jumped 6.27m in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
He secured his 33rd competition victory, clearing 6.11m on his first attempt, finishing ahead of Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis, who cleared 6.02m, and Australia’s Kurtis Marschall, who achieved 5.83m.
During his second attempt at 6.29m, Duplantis grazed the bar with one leg and his stomach, yet the bar remained in place, making the jump valid.
Since Ukrainian Sergey Bubka became the pioneer athlete to exceed 6 metres on July 13, 1985, in Paris, the world record has been exceeded 26 times, with Bubka achieving it 12 times, Duplantis 13 times, and Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie once.
Duplantis, who was born in the US, first established the world record in 2020 with a height of 6.17m. He is considered the top contender for his third consecutive outdoor world title in Tokyo in a month.
