Olympic and World Championship gold medalist Armand Duplantis is a Swedish pole vaulter. Duplantis has cleared 6.00 metres or higher on more occasions than any other vaulter in history. He once set a personal best of 6.18 metres, which ranked him as the joint third-best performer ever, alongside Sergey Bubka and Steve Hooker.
Duplantis was born in the United States but was raised in Sweden. He acquired a sufficient command of Swedish while growin...