Mondo Duplantis celebrates his world record in Uppsala (© AFP / Getty Images)
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).
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 didn't 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 590m to place third, fourth and fifth respectively.
*Subject to the usual ratification procedure
