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Armand Duplantis is in Rome for the athletics EC.
The goal is of course to win another gold and break the world record again.
But now an unexpected concern is revealed that can cause it for “Mondo”.
The Athletics European Championship is in full swing and the biggest star in Rome, Italy, is named Armand Duplantis. The Swedish world star is chasing another gold medal to add to the already large collection and is also aiming for a new world record with 6.25 meters.
Mondo’s concerns
New for this year’s European Athletics Championships is prize money for the first time and this could cause concern for Duplanti’s world record hunt. Because prize money does not go to all gold medalists, but to the best athletes in five different discipline groups on the women’s and men’s side.
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This means that you have to collect points according to the International Athletics Federation’s, World Athletics, own table calculation and then you are rewarded with 50,000 euros, around 575,000 Swedish kronor, each.
Duplanti’s money hunt
Therefore, not only “Mondo” competes against other pole vaulters, but also the winners in the long jump, high jump and triple jump. And therefore a six-metre jump may not be enough for the 24-year-old, but he will probably have to take one more height and then try for the world record height.
– Yes, it may happen that he has to jump at a height in between to fully secure the prize money, says Duplanti’s manager Daniel Wessfeldt to Aftonbladet.
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The prize money is a way to attract the sport’s biggest names to the EC, and Armand Duplantis is truly convinced. So far, he has two European Championship gold outdoors and one European Championship indoor gold in his prize cabinet.
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