Mondo surpasses legendary Bubka's with another World Record performance
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The Swede was competing in his second competition of the year after opening his season with a 6.06m victory in Clermont-Ferrand
World and Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis added another centimetre to his own world pole vault record, clearing 6.31m at the Mondo Classic, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, in Uppsala on Thursday, 12 March.
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This was Duplantis' 15th World Record, raising the bar from 6.17m in 2020 to what it is now in just six years, successfully surpassing Sergey Bubka's tally of consecutive pole vault world records (14).
Bubka first took the world record from 5.85m to 5.90m in 1984 (3) and, after France's Thierry Vigneron raised it to 5.91m, then took it from 5.94m in 1984 to 6.14m in 1994 (14).
The pole vault superstar had no failures on his way to his record-breaking performance at his 'home' meeting, opening with 5.65m before scaling 5.90m and 6.08m at the first time of asking.
With the bar at 6.08m, just one other competitor, Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen, remained in the competition, the 2023 European indoor champion having cleared 6.00m on his third try.
Guttormsen did not succeed at 6.08m, ultimately finishing second, while Duplantis then moved the bar up to 6.31m.
The Swede, who was competing in his second competition of the year after opening his season with a 6.06m victory in Clermont-Ferrand, got over the record-breaking height on his first try, adding a centimetre to the world record he set when winning the world title in Tokyo last year.
"If you come to Sweden to compete against me, it will be even harder to beat me," said the 2025 World Athlete of the Year after setting the 15th world record of his career. "There are a lot of emotions right now. There was a little extra pressure because I want to perform in a different way. Setting a world record here was actually incredible."
Zachery Bradford, Sam Kendricks and Kurtis Marschall all cleared 5.90m to place third, fourth and fifth respectively.
