Why pole vault icon has broken world record TWELVE times amid £1m pay day

Mondo Duplantis has now broken the record of the Herenpole Vaulld 12 times, with the dual Olympic champion again wrote history at the Diamond League in Stockholm

Mondo Duplantis broke the Herenpole Vaulld record for a 12th time in the Diamond League in Stockholm, in which the 25-year-old reached an approval of 6.28 m. Duplantis is a double Olympic champion and broke the world record in February 2020 for the first time.

He only continued with small steps to maximize his bonus money, with athletes assessing a maximum $ 100,000 (£ 73,000) payout for setting a new world record.

As a result, it is more lucrative for Duplantis to increase the record with small increase instead of increasing it as high as possible. Duplantis is not the only pole vaulter used this tactic, with Sergey Bubka in Ukraine and the Russian Yelena Isinbayeva who do the same.

Bubka broke 17 times the world record of the gentlemen and the Indoor World Record 18 times, while Isinbayeva broke the Women’s World Record 28 times. Duplantis is now an estimated more than £ 1 million.

For the Diamond League event, Duplantis stated that breaking the record on home was his “biggest dream”. He said: “I am pretty excited. Of course I would say it is like a mini championship for me.

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“It feels like that kind of pressure that I put on my self – it means so much. You really have to defend the ground. My biggest dream now – I feel like the only thing I miss – to break the record here at Stockholm Stadium.

“It is a kind of something that I can’t get out of my mind. I have a lot of my family here – almost from my family of boch -edges. So that increases the pressure removal. In the track. In the track, you don’t really get that man’s kind of man.

“But here, I am really feeling that – and the como with extra pressure. But I also think it’s super nice, because it feels like I represent the subject a little bigger than just me when I’m on the track.”

Duplantis was a blinds in America, but for Sweden this mother Helena competes and he was pleased to break the record. “The first time I jumped into this stadium when I was 11 years old, it was rainy, cold and I jumped exactly under four meters,” I explained.

“It was quite high for how young I was. She Ethch the names of world record holders here. It will be very special to have my name in the stadium.

“It is the most beautiful stadium, in my opinion. It will be one of the biggest memories for me, I think, in my career.”

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