Armand Duplantis has strong connections to Avesta.
Now he is being honored in the city – in the most unexpected way.
Armand Duplantis now lives on Kungsholmen in Stockholm, but he has strong connections to other places in Sweden as well. Partly in Uppsala, where he lived once he moved to Sweden, but also in Avesta.
Strong connection
It was there that Armand Duplantis spent many summers as a child. Armand Duplanti’s mother grew up in the town, and his grandmother and grandfather still live there. And over the years, Duplantis has been celebrated in many different ways in the city. Not least because of the huge monument, with the same height as Mondo’s world record, which is placed there, right next to their 13-meter-high Dala horse.
Last year, Duplantis was also honored with a plaque in the city, something that meant a lot to him. Duplantis has also responded by donating money to Avesta’s athletics club IK Stål, which was once founded by Duplantis’ grandfather. Now Duplantis is being celebrated again in the city of Avesta, but this time in the most unexpected way.
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The unexpected tribute
In Avesta there is a huge breeding facility for endangered bison. Bison is a European bison, and from now on you can see Mondo there every day. Avesta Municipality writes on its website that father AvSkutt and mother AvMy have had a third calf – and it is named nothing less than AvMondo. Mondo is Armand Duplanti’s nickname, and is of course a tribute to the greatest pole vaulter of all time.
Armand Duplantis has started the season brilliantly. He hasn’t been close to his world record of 6.22 – but there have been wins in every event, and in Oslo last week he won the Bislett Games major in 6.01. His world annual best is already at 6.12 – and there are therefore high hopes that he will be able to jump another decimeter higher at some point during the season, and thus break another world record.
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