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Armand Duplantis is the world’s best pole vaulter.
There continues to be no doubt about it.
Now he has twelve championships to become the very best ever, if he is to believe his own promise to the Swedish people.
Only 23 years old feels Armand Duplantis yet as a veteran of the world of athletics. Since the breakthrough as an 18-year-old with the EC gold in Berlin 2018, “Mondo” has won everything that can be won as a pole vaulter.
Mondo’s gold
WC gold outdoors and indoors, European Championship gold outdoors and indoors and the Olympic gold in Tokyo 2021. But the Swede still has a way to go before the legend Sergey Bubka who won six World Cup golds and broke 35 world records in the pole vault.
Duplantis himself has admitted that he can see himself lasting a long time, possibly as far as the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane. Then there are a lot of championships left to win medals in.
“Assuming that Armand Duplantis can stay healthy and injury-free and he continues until 2032, the year he turns 33, he could make another twelve major championships. There are many indications that he will soon be considered the world’s best pole vaulter of all time,” writes Jens Littorin in Dagens Nyheter.
Duplanti’s Hunt
In contrast, Bubka “only” won one Olympic gold and one European Championship gold during his successful career. Which means that Duplantis can catch up with the icon’s total medal haul already at the next World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 2025, by which time he will have had time for both the European Championships and the Olympics as well.
As superior as he is right now, it speaks volumes for the 23-year-old succeeding in erasing Sergej Bubka from the history books.
“Radiosport’s expert commentator, Miro Zalar, believes that Duplantis will dominate his sport for a long time to come. Because so far he has hardly reached his highest heights. The world record holder is about to start jumping with longer and stiffer poles. If he manages to handle them and maintain his technique, Zalar is convinced that he will fly higher. Duplantis has said himself that he sees it as reasonable that one day he will manage a bar that is 6.30”, writes DN journalist Littorin.
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