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World Pole Vault Champion to Scale New Heights

  • Posted Aug 18, 2021 10:56 by Andrew Barnes-Roberts
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INTERNATIONAL:​ He’s the best pole-vaulter on Earth, having taken gold at Tokyo 2020, soaring over 6.02 metres at his first attempt, but 21-year-old Armand Duplantis says he hasn’t yet reached his limits, and wants to break his own world record several times over. The American-born Swede says the Olympics were just the beginning. He might have taken gold with a height of 6.02 metres, but he already has a personal best of 6.18:

"I want to do everything that you can in this sport. I want to win everything there is to win, I want to do it more times than anyone else has done it. If you know pole vault, if you know the history of pole vault, that is really really big shoes to fill, when you are following the likes of Renaud Lavillenie and Sergei Bubka, people that have won many global titles, Bubka winning six or seven world championship titles. I haven't even won one yet, so I feel like I still have a really long way to go and a lot of things left for me to achieve, so it is a really good start right now for my journey but there is a lot for me to go out there and do."

He's already been named male World Athlete of the Year for 2020, and is in with a shot again this year. He’s already trying to set a new world record of 6.19m, but has ambitions to get into the 6.20s. He’s next in action at the world championships next year.


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