and now he is european champion with unbelievable 6,05m !! I quickly became a big fan of him after seeing this miracle happen today, but after seeing this progression video I am just in complete awe ! he´s inspiring me so much, support from germany~
What impressed me is that, in many of these videos, the bar was at the top of the supports and he cleared easily. Often by 10 centimeters or more. It's like the event organizers figured no kid could possibly need to set the bar higher than this.
For any one who has vaulted, coached and or studied this sport this is a athlete that will change history in the sport for years and many athletes to come great work and dedication you deserve it all
not only can he pole vault but he can run too. he ran 10.4 in the 100 meters at his district meet this year. i was lucky enough to watch this from the field
10.4 sounds awfully fast. The women's WR is at 10.49, since 1988. Googling him, it looks like his PR is 10.57. But that was with a wind velocity of 2.1 m/s, which makes it ineligible for a record, and his second best seems to be 10.69.
I agree, it really highlights how much work and dedication it takes to be the master of your craft. And it helps to have a pole vault kit in your backyard and a world class athlete as a father ☺
In the US, most vaulters don't start when they get to high school, but in Europe, it is much more of a club sport, so many kids get earlier exposure. Can you imagine how proud his dad must be?
Anybody who wants to be a good pole vaulter has one in their backyard. I did from 6th grade through college senior year. No different from a football place-kicker having a goal post in the backyard or a basketball hoop over the garage door.
He literally was set up for big success as a kid. With his dad being a former successful pole vaulter, have a pole vault pit set up in his own backyard, all the tools. Especially once he hit puberty too, it really was just all uphill PRs!
That is an unbelievable progression. Priceless video to show the grand kids. Unparalleled talent. Well deserved works record that he holds today going over 20 ft. That back flip at the end of this video was out of this world.
this is the proof that all the GOAT in the making that we are witnessing in our eyes all had to start somewhere, even better when they are still young. So as much as possible, as early as you can. Go chase that dreams, manifest it, and never forget to work hard on achieving it!
Armand Duplantis is absolutely incredible. But he also has good genes. Both his mother and father were track and field athletes. His father was a pole vaulter and has coached his son throughout his life. Has already won everything and broken every record and is only 24 years old. Where will it end? 6.30?
For all of you that has commented on using feet -inches instead of metric ,i offer the following :1)i as an engineer i prefer the metric system , however in the USA that's what we use, 2) the 10 year progression was performed using feet-inches, 3) a standard that is used to measure young vaulters high performance in the US is to "jump your age (in feet) ", no equal metric standard, 4) all measurement after high school are reported in meters, 5) standard methods for converting feet inches to meters round DOWN losing as much as a 1/4 inch 6) we use $ and not eur etc, 7)i don't have imovie anymore to make changes, and 8) take the time to do what we do in US ,convert meters to feet inches.
Here in 2022 this pops up on my feed. He broke the WR last week. NBC and World Athletics had the wherewithal to pan back to show him down most of the runway. It’s really showed how fast he is. He is light, strong, fearless and still very young. He clearly is head and shoulders above the competition. By the end of his career no one should be surprised if he vaults 20’8” or dare I say 21 FEET!!!
When I was in high school (early 1970s) the best pole vaulter in the state was clearing around 15’6”. Now I’m watching someone who broke that height in 8th grade. Amazing. I’ve always loved this event, though I never could do it. (I did clear almost 4 feet messing around in practice once.😝)
This guy has been breaking world records every year since he was 7. Wow! Congratulations on the Gold Medal and the new world record in Paris, 2024, sir! It was really exciting!
And in Feb 2020 new world record holder with a 6.17 metre jump! I think he can still jump higher, and it will be many, many years before the records that he will set will be broken by anyone else. Have to update this, make that 6.18 metres!!! He just did it again in Glasgow a few days later on his first attempt! This guy is simply unbelievable.
That backflip tho 😂 such an inspiring vid, so happy he made it at the European Championships!!! By the way, I‘m an iceskater from Germany, so I really can just wonder about how much work he put in this sport 👍
Even if I'm french and proud to be (...I'm french ahah), I hope he'll have a lot of title, and probably the world record of Renaud. He's already a great champion, and even the reaction from Lavillenie at the european championship shows all the respect he have for Mondo (comparing to his reaction for Morgunov's jumps)...
@@sophiewygant2004 How is that sexist? Female athletes will never be able to compete with male athletes of a similar calibre. Bone and muscle structure and density, testosterone levels, etc. are too big of a factor to make it possible. Also this is why there is so much debate around transgender athletes competing
I didn't even learn about pole vault until 10th grade, we finally got equipment and a few of us started. Had no real coach and just kinda winged it. It was fun but we were awful. My buddy and I attended Bill Faulks pole vault camp and took back what we learned, greatly improving all of our team. This was years ago, and last I heard our old school team is going strong and still has active vaulters. Even better, was recently talking with my neice, 7, who does gymnastics and told her about pole vaulting. She informed me they do a class at her gym, and she says it looks fun and wants to try. So proud lol.
Starting something at 5 years of age,it's nothing special that you master it after 15 years,all credit to his parents and whoever else recognised his talent and guided him
The greatest poll vaulter of all time. He is only 21 yrs and Sergey Bubka set his highest world record at 6.15 meters at the age of 31 . Mondo will still be soaring !
I've never heard of him until watching today Aug, 05, 2024, Olympic Pole Vault Final, I swear I prayed for his third attempt for the World record bar and this "Fying Swedish Man" is truly the best of the Paris Olympic 2024.
