Duplantis cleared 6.17 meters — or 20 feet and nearly 3 inches — in Torun, Poland. Compare yourself against athletes in your district, your state, or the nation. “Every time, there’s a disaster or someone comes up that no one knows about.”, Greg Duplantis, who was an All-American pole-vaulter at L.S.U., said most people he had encountered had been fine with Mondo’s decision, though “you get a few disgruntled people.”, “I’m expecting some backlash for the Olympics,” he said. American Marc Wright was credited with the first recognized men’s pole vault world record with a leap of 4.02 meters (13 feet, 2¼ inches) in 1912. Duplantis, who is from a family of elite athletes, all of whom attended Louisiana State University, spent his boyhood summers in his mother’s native Sweden, competing for a track and field club there. Exhibit II – Pole Vault World Records and Product Innovations Wood era: From 1850 to 1898, poles were generally ash or hickory. In June of 1962, Finland’s Pentti Nikula briefly took the record away from the United States when he cleared 4.94/16-2½. Armand Duplantis of Sweden celebrates after setting a new World Record (6.17) in the men's pole vault final during the indoor athletics meeting Orlen Copernicus Cup 2020 in … Norway’s Charles Hoff beat Foss’ Olympic mark in 1922 and improved the record three more times, peaking at 4.25/13-11¼ in 1925. Cornelius Warmerdam was the first man to clear 15 feet – the initial clearance apparently occurred in 1940, although it wasn’t recognized as a world record. Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar.Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, Cretans and Celts.It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and since 2000 for women. Robert Gutowski finally edged Warmerdam out of the record books by clearing 4.78/15-8 in 1957, the first record set with a metal pole. France’s Pierre Quinon broke Polyakov’s mark in 1983 but Vigneron took it for the fourth time four days later after topping 5.83/19-1½. Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has broken Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record at the Diamond League in Rome. The Swede broke his own world record in … Men's pole vault WR progression (selected) Fellow American John Pennel drove the record higher in August, breaking it twice and topping out at 5.20/17-¾, becoming the first to clear 17 feet. The former Lafayette High and LSU standout cleared a height of 6.15 meters in the pole vault to claim the outdoor world record in addition to his indoor world record … Mondo Duplantis sets a new pole vault world record after clearing 6.18 metres. Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows then lifted the mark above 4.5 meters, to 4.54/14-10¾, at the same Los Angeles meet in 1937. Don Bragg’s leap of 4.80/15-9 in 1960 marked the beginning of a 5-year period in which the pole vault mark changed hands 11 times. There shouldn’t be anything wrong with that.”, Sam Kendricks of Oxford, Miss., the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist and a two-time world champion, told The New York Times in 2017 that Mondo Duplantis’s decision was a “very professional way of looking at it.”, “I know a lot of people are going to say, ‘Why don’t you compete for the United States?’” Kendricks said. See the Eugene record jump Video on YouTube @ 19:20. The latter mark stood for one month shy of 15 years. The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.. As of June 21, 2009, 71 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Rankings for middle school, high school, and college athletes. He broke the outdoor world record 17 times and the indoor world record 18 times. LiveAbout uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Armand Duplantis, known as Mondo, cleared 6.17 meters on the pole vault at the Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, to set a world record. Pennel set his second mark after borrowing a pole from American Fred Hansen. Armand Duplantis, known … Duplantis of Louisiana is the world’s best pole-vaulter, but he will represent Sweden instead of the United States at the Olympics. The record was previously set by France’s Renaud Lavillenie back in 2014. At an indoor meet in Torun, Poland, Duplantis edged by a centimeter the previous record set in 2014 by Renaud Lavillenie of France, the 2012 Olympic champion. Under today’s rules, an indoor record is eligible to be considered as the pole vault’s overall world mark, but the rules change wasn’t made retroactive. Last weekend in Poland, the US-born Swede cleared 6.17 meters in the pole vault to set a new world record. He improved the mark twice more that year before facing off with Vigneron at a meet in Rome on Aug. 31. Hansen’s poles then broke the record twice in 1964, but this time with Hansen holding them, as he peaked at 5.28/17-3¾. Sweden, along with many countries, has a more forgiving Olympic selection process that is not determined by a single trials performance. It took almost two years before the record fell again. Bubka lost his outdoor world record only once in his illustrious career. This time he enjoyed the record for nine months before old nemesis Pennel topped 5.44/17-10 in 1969. Vigneron took the record back in 1981 – leaping 5.80/19-¼ to top the 19-meter barrier – but only owned it for six days before Russia’s Vladimir Polyakov reached the record books with a leap of 5.81/19-¾. On July 31, 1994 – jumping at altitude in Sestriere, Italy – Bubka set his final world record by clearing 6.14/20-1¾. Just more than two months later, however, Pennel took the record back with a leap of 5.34/17-6¼. At Thursday’s Rome Diamond League meet, 20-year-old Mondo Duplantis set the outdoor pole vault world record, clearing a height of 6.15 meters … Mike Rosenbaum is an award-winning sports writer covering various sports and events for more than 15 years. Famously, the decathlete Dan O’Brien, who was an Olympic gold-medal favorite in 1992, failed to qualify for the 10-event discipline at the Barcelona Games when he could not clear a height in the pole vault at the Olympic trials in New Orleans. He’s following in his mom’s footsteps. One bad day, trouble with his technique or adverse weather conditions would present the risk of having to wait another four years to compete in the Summer Games. This was the second time in a week that 20-year-old Duplantis, nicknamed “Mondo”, had broken the men’s pole vault record. Mondo Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka‘s 26-year-old outdoor pole vault world record, clearing 6.15 meters at a Diamond League meet in Rome on Thursday. Already this year, Mondo Duplantis cleared never-before-seen heights in the pole vault — world records at 20 feet, 3 inches on consecutive Saturdays in … In Torun, Poland on February 8, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis set a new men’s pole vault world record, clearing a height of 20 feet, 2 3/4 inches. Duplantis, known widely as Mondo, has already been selected to compete at the Tokyo Games, where he will be a favorite to win gold. American Sabin Carr leaped 4.27/14-0 in 1927 to break the 14-foot barrier and begin the United States’ 35-year hold on the world record. Mondo Duplantis made more history at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday (17 September).. Armand Duplantis, a 20-year-old Louisiana native who has been as shrewd in choosing the nation he represents as he has been in choosing his fiberglass poles, broke the world record in the pole vault on Saturday with a jump of 20 feet 2 ¾ inches, or 6.17 meters. Bubka immediately surpassed him to win the meet, and take the record back, by clearing 5.94/19-5¾. American Marc Wright was credited with the first recognized men’s pole vault world record with a leap of 4.02 meters (13 feet, 2¼ inches) in 1912. Photograph: Stephen Pond/British Athletics via Getty Images Pole Vault New World Record 6.17m | Armand Duplantis | Toruń 08.02.2020Just crazy !! The following year was quiet, then four new marks were set in 1972. But he will wear the blue and gold uniform of Sweden, his mother’s home country, instead of the red, white and blue of the United States. He cleared a height of 6.15 meters in the pole vault to claim the outdoor world record in addition to his indoor world record that his set in February at 6.18 meters. He set his first official world mark by clearing 4.60/15-1 in 1940, then raised the mark twice more, reaching 4.77/15-7¾ in 1942. In 1966 American Bob Seagren gained his first world mark by clearing 5.32/17-5½. In part, he was swayed by wanting to follow in his mother’s footsteps. “I don’t quite get it. In April he became the first vaulter to hit the 5-meter mark, then he improved the record to 5.08/16-8 in June. His mother, Helena, was a heptathlete and volleyball player at L.S.U. Foss had been credited with a clearance of 4.05/13-3½ the previous year, but the feat wasn’t recognized by the IAAF for record purposes. It’s a big year, but it’s a good way to start it.”, Armand Duplantis Breaks the Pole Vault World Record. As of 2014 the IAAF has ratified 71 world records in the event, although they were set by just 33 different vaulters. Because of IAAF rules at the time, the higher leap is accepted as the indoor world mark, while the 6.14-meter leap is considered the overall world record. Bubka’s name has been in the record books ever since. Undeterred, Seagren set his third world record in 1968, clearing 5.41/17-9 at altitude in California. In his career, Bubka broke the outdoor pole vault mark 17 times and the indoor record on 18 occasions. Duplantis cleared 6 metres, 15 centimetres at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meet in Rome with his second attempt, beating Bubka's mark of 6.14m set in Sestriere in July 1994. But his fifth world mark was also his briefest. Sweden’s Kjell Isaksson set the first three records, then Seagren returned to the top by clearing 5.63/18-5½ at the U.S. Olympic Trials. One year earlier, however, Bubka – now competing for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era – had cleared 6.15/20-2 indoors at Donetsk. A vaulting phenom from the age of 7 with dual citizenship, Duplantis had to choose which country to represent in international competitions. Sweden's Armand Duplantis set a new pole vault outdoor world record of 6.15m at the Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday. The highest pole vault by a male is 6.18 metres (20 feet 3.3 inches), achieved by Armand Duplantis (Sweden, b. USA) on 15 February 2020 at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow 2020 in Glasgow, UK. The mark was broken four more times that year, twice by France’s Thierry Vigneron, once by another Frenchman, Phillippe Houvion, and then by Kozakiewicz again, who finished the year as the world record-holder after clearing 5.78/18-11½ at the Moscow Olympics. East Germany’s Wolfgang Nordwig became the world record-holder in 1970, breaking the mark twice, then Greece’s Christos Papanikolou topped the 18-foot barrier and set a new mark of 5.49/18-0 in October of that year. Vigneron briefly led the meet with a world-record leap of 5.91/19-4½. Rafal Oleksiewicz/PressFocus/MB Media, via Getty Images, told the website of track’s world governing body. If he had sought to represent the United States at the Olympics, Duplantis would have had to finish among the top three vaulters at the Olympic track and field trials in June. “But that’s not the point of it for him. Bubka broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times during his career. The point is to jump high and elevate the sport.”, On Saturday, Duplantis told the website of track’s world governing body that the record was “something that I wanted since I was 3 years old. A number of top American vaulters have been left heartbroken by a disappointing performance at the trials. Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record By OlympicTalk Feb 8, 2020, 11:59 PM EST Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, a 20-year-old Swede raised in Louisiana, broke a six-year-old record in the pole vault at an indoor meet on Saturday. Duplantis of Louisiana is the world’s best pole-vaulter, but he will represent Sweden instead of the United States at the Olympics. Then on Saturday, he broke his own mark with a 6.18 meter vault on his first attempt. Among other things, Duplantis’s decision is a cunning bit of strategy. Seagren’s fourth world mark survived until 1975, when fellow American David Roberts topped 5.65/18-6½. The pole vault record is the most frequently broken word mark in men’s track and field history. (CNN) He may be in the early stages of his pole vault career, but Armand "Mondo" Duplantis has already scaled the summit of his sport. 6 British vaulters produced all but one of the 24 world records that were set during this 48-year period. Over the next nine years, Americans Lee Barnes, William Garber, Keith Brown and George Varoff all inched the pole vault record upward, reaching 4.43/14-6¼ in 1936. The men's pole vault world record had only been beaten once in the last quarter-century, until 20-year-old Swede Armand Duplantis set new marks twice in a week. Before that, Sergey Bubka’s record of 20 feet, 2 inches had stood since 1993. The women’s pole vault came on to the IAAF World Championships programme in 1999 and first appeared at the Olympic Games in 2000. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. His effort is one of the longest-lived men’s pole vault records, surviving until 1920, when American Frank Foss won the Olympic gold medal by clearing 4.09/13-5. “I can’t say that wasn’t in the back of my mind,” Greg Duplantis, Mondo’s father and coach, said on Saturday in a telephone interview from Lafayette, La. It caps a wonderful season for the Swede who is unbeaten since last year's World Championships in Doha … Brian Sternberg returned the pole vault mark to the U.S. in 1963. He cleared 6.15m on the second attempt, having come desperately close with his first, to break Sergey Bubka's outdoor pole vault world best of 6.14m set in Sestriere in July 1994.. On May 26, 1984, Sergey Bubka of Ukraine – then competing for the Soviet Union – leaped 5.85/19-2¼ to begin his reign on top of the men’s pole vault lists. Earl Bell and then Roberts set new marks in 1976, with Roberts peaking at 5.70/18-8¼. Place Competitor DOB Nat Score Event List; 1 Anzhelika SIDOROVA 28 JUN 1991 The men’s pole vault record left America for good (as of 2014) in 1980 when Poland’s Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz cleared 5.72/18-9. The following year, Seagren leapfrogged Pennel with a jump of 5.36/17-7, but the mark survived for just 13 days before 19-year-old Paul Wilson cleared 5.38/17-7¾ at the U.S. Championships. His effort is one of the longest-lived men’s pole vault records, surviving until 1920, when American Frank Foss won the Olympic gold medal by clearing 4.09/13-5. O’Brien recovered to win the gold medal in 1996. But he also understood the risks of trying to qualify for the Olympics for the United States with its trials format. The height of world-record vaults during the wood era increased 1’18½”, as shown in Exhibit I. By using LiveAbout, you accept our. Ukraine's Sergey Bubka won six consecutive gold medals at the IAAF World Championships from 1983 to 1997. George Davies broke the record in 1961 with a fiberglass pole, then John Uelses – who topped the 16-foot mark – and Dave Tork both erased the record within a month of each other in 1962. 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