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Lafayette High School and LSU alumnus Mondo Duplantis has won the pole vault gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, and broke his own world record for the 14th time, according to the competition’s official website.
Duplantis cleared 6.30 meters (20 feet 8 inches), besting his own mark by a single centimeter, for his third straight world championship.
Duplantis has now won 36 competitions in a row since August 2023, breaking the world record eight times in that stretch alone. He broke the world record for the first time in February 2020. The previous record before Duplantis’s run was 6.16 meters.
He is now widely considered one of the best pole vaulters in history, along with Ukraine’s Sergey Bubka, who set 17 men’s pole vault world records between 1984 and 1994. Duplantis has set 14 in the last five years.
He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World outdoor champion and a three-time World indoor champion.
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