Armand Duplantis, of Sweden celebrates his victory and world file within the closing of the boys’s pole vault on the fifteenth Gyulai Istvan Memorial Track and Field Hungarian Grand Prix within the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his personal pole vault world file with a clearance of 6.29 metres on the Hungarian Grand Prix assembly in Budapest on Tuesday, the thirteenth time he has set a brand new world mark as he continues to defy gravity.

The double-Olympic champion maintained his custom of enhancing on his earlier file by one centimetre, along with his second try on the Istvan Gyulai Memorial overhauling the mark he set in Stockholm in June.

Duplantis had regarded a little bit off his finest kind, lacking his first try at 6.11 and, after Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis retired having failed twice on the similar peak, the Swede had the bar raised to make his traditional world file try.

The 25-year-old twice world champion was unsuccessful on his first try to whereas he rattled the bar barely on his second effort, Duplantis regarded up virtually in disbelief to see he had once more reached a brand new peak within the self-discipline he dominates.

Armand Duplantis of Sweden, competes within the closing of the boys’s pole vault on the fifteenth Gyulai Istvan Memorial Track and Field Hungarian Grand Prix within the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP

“I love Hungary very much. The track is very good, I love the crowd, I would like to return, thank you,” Duplantis stated.

Duplantis, who gained his second world title in the identical stadium in 2023, ran straight to the gang to have fun along with his associate Desire Inglander and his household.

On Monday, Duplantis missed a lot of the press convention forward of the Budapest assembly, apologising when he turned up late, saying he had a whole lot of work to do on his time administration.

“I think I’ll have to make up for it tomorrow with a big leap,” Duplantis stated.

He duly stayed true to his phrase to the delight of the Budapest crowd, and has now soared 15 centimetres larger than Sergey Bubka, who Duplantis as soon as described as ‘mythological’.

The American-born Duplantis first broke the world file in 2020 in Poland, along with his leap of 6.17 surpassing by one centimetre the earlier file set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie six years earlier.

Lavillenie had overwhelmed Bubka’s finest leap of 6.14, which had stood for nearly 20 years, however Duplantis has taken the game to a different degree and on Saturday competes on the Silesia Diamond League, the place he additionally broke the world file final 12 months.

Published – August 13, 2025 04:08 pm IST

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