Mondo Duplantis breaks the pole vault world record once again at the All Star Perche 2023

Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis is simply unstoppable as he has broken the pole vault world record for the sixth time in his young career at All Star Perche 2023.

Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis is at the peak of his powers and he has been setting the world of pole vault on fire. The young Swede set another new pole vault record, this time clearing a height of 6.22m while winning the All Star Perche 2023 event in Clermont-Ferrand, France on February 25.

The 23-year-old has now broken the world record for the sixth time in his young career and he is also in the running for the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award.

Duplantis was immediately congratulated by Renaud Lavillenie, the former world record holder from France whose record he first broke in 2020. Lavillenie is the co-founder and helped organise the All Star Perche event where yet another world record was set.

“I wanted to do it for Renaud,” said Duplantis, who looked at Lavillenie as a role model growing up. “This is really special.”

The indoor and outdoor world record-holder has won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 in 2021, a world indoor title, and is also the European indoor and outdoor champion.

The reigning Olympic and World champion attempted the record height on his season opener in Uppsala at the start of this month, eventually winning with 6.10m for his best-ever season debut. He then tried the height of 6.22m just eight days later in Berlin but failed on that occasion as he could only get a best attempt of 6.06m.

However, this time, he wouldn’t be denied as the Swedish athlete achieved the historic mark on his third attempt, soaring clear at 6.22m for the sixth world record of his career.

He had began the competition with a height of 5.71m and vaulted that almost immediately. He then passed at 5.81m and later tried 5.91m on his second attempt. Duplantis had already won the All Star Perche competition with a successful vault of 6.01m but it wasn’t enough to satisfy him.

When it was time to try the 6.22m record he set for himself, he failed in the first and second attempt but his third try was flawless and sublime and helped him break his own previous world record.

Duplantis has now achieved a total of 60 six metre-plus clearances in his career so far.

As mentioned before, he set his first world record when he broke Lavillenie’s 6.16m in Torun in February 2020. Just one week later, he extended that record to 6.18m in Glasgow.

His next world record arrived two years later and a couple came in quick succession. First, he cleared 6.19m at the Belgrade Indoor Meeting on 7 March 2022 and 13 days later he improved again to 6.20m in the same venue, when winning gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22.

Just four months later, he had broken that world record again with a height of 6.21m at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon 22 before his most recent accomplishment.