FILE– Athletics – World Athletics Indoor Championships – Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports activities Park, Nanjing, China – March 22, 2025 Sweden’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis celebrates along with his nationwide flag after profitable the Males’s Pole Vault last REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Pole vault sensation Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, topped World Sportsman of the 12 months on the Laureus Awards, says no competitor in historical past may match him bounce for bounce.
“I don’t suppose that there’s ever been anyone within the historical past both that would line up with me and go bounce for bounce with me,” the 25-year-old Swede instructed Olympics.com on Friday.
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“I’ve the boldness in my talents to the place, if there’s anyone going to line up on the monitor towards me, and it involves pole vaulting, I’m one of the best one on the market.”
With two Olympic gold medals and 11 world data to his identify, the Swede’s swagger is backed by substance. His profitable streak, which stretches again to July 2023, stands at 28 consecutive victories.
Athletics – World Athletics Indoor Championships – Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports activities Park, Nanjing, China – March 22, 2025 Sweden’s Armand Duplantis in motion through the Males’s Pole Vault last REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
However whilst he soars above his contemporaries, Duplantis acknowledges the towering legacy of Ukrainian Sergey Bubka – the 1988 Olympic champion who rewrote the document books 35 occasions – whereas stopping in need of a direct comparability.
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“I’m nonetheless fairly younger and I feel I’d want a bit extra longevity to match a profession like Bubka’s, as a result of he was in a position to bounce at such a excessive degree for such a very long time,” Duplantis, who makes his outside season debut on the Xiamen Diamond League assembly in China this weekend, added.
The record-breaker, whose final mark of 6.27 metres was set on the All Star Perche assembly in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in February, sees his extraordinary achievements as merely waypoints on his journey.
“I perceive pole vaulting and I do know that I’m not going to interrupt the world document each time I compete. However I do know the occasions when I’ve a very good probability.
“For me, it’s only a journey. It’s simply attempting to enhance myself. I like data. However I feel that I’m extra obsessive about simply being one of the best model of myself,” Duplantis added.
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