Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis has broken the men’s pole vault world record for a 13th time. Duplantis, the two-time Olympic gold ...

Like Sergey Bubka, the Swede gets hefty bonuses every time he sets a new mark; doing so by the smallest margin possible each time is being financially-smart.

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis bettered his pole vault world record by a centimetre on Tuesday, clearing 6.29 metres at the athletics meet in Budapest. Since Ukrainian Sergey Bubka became the first ...

Aug 12 (Reuters) - Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29 metres at the ...

Duplantis' approach has become commonplace among pole vaulters in the past with Ukrainian Sergey Bubka and Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva having done so in their careers to maximise bonuses.

The 25-year-old Swedish-American pole vaulter broke his own world record for the 12th time since 2020. He had set the last ...

Armand Duplantis breaks the men's pole vault world record for a 13th time with a clearance of 6.29m at the Hungarian Grand ...

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis bettered his pole vault world record by a centimetre on Tuesday, clearing 6.29 metres at the ...

Duplantis will also bid to become the second man, after Sergey Bubka, to win three successive world outdoor pole vault titles when he competes in Tokyo next month.

Sweden's Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis raised his own pole vault world record to 6.29 metres at the Budapest athletics meet on ...

Sweden's Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a clearance of 6.29 metres at the Hungarian Grand Prix ...

It's the same record-breaking strategy used by Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, who maximized bonus money by raising the bar one centimeter at a time on many occasions in the 1980s and ‘90s.