Armand Duplantis Clears 6.31m in Uppsala for His 15th World Record

The bar sat at 6.31 metres. Armand Duplantis cleared it on his first attempt, and the men's pole vault record moved another centimetre beyond reach. It happened at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on 12 March 2026, at the indoor meeting that carries his own name, in the Swedish town he calls home.

A record made at home

The setting gave the evening its weight. This competition of course, naturally, since I put my name on it, is the most high-pressured and important competition, basically, of the whole year for me, Duplantis said before the meeting. He answered the pressure with a single clean vault. Mondo Duplantis broke the men's pole vault world record for a 15th time, but it was his first time doing it at the Mondo Classic, the competition named after him held at his Swedish base in Uppsala. The two-time Olympic champion cleared 6.31 metres — twenty feet, eight and a quarter inches — on his opening try at the vault-only meet.

The manner of it was familiar. Duplantis has long chosen to lift the mark by the smallest permitted margin, and this night was no different. Duplantis chose to increase the world record by the minimum one centimetre for all 15 of his successful attempts, a method borrowed from Sergey Bubka, who raised his own bar a centimetre at a time through the 1980s and '90s. Each rise is modest on paper. The accumulation is not.

The long climb

To measure the achievement, look back at where the event stood before him. Before Duplantis, the world record was 6.16 metres, set by Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie in 2014. In Uppsala it reached 6.31. The distance travelled belongs almost entirely to one athlete.

His current form has no obvious edge. Duplantis has won 38 competitions in a row since August 2023, breaking the world record nine times in that stretch alone, including on his third and final attempt at the Paris Olympics and at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo. The story began earlier still. He broke the world record for the first time in February 2020, in Toruń, Poland — the same arena that would host the World Indoor Championships days after Uppsala. Six years separate the first mark from the fifteenth, and the line between them runs only upward.

He has not finished. A sixteenth attempt has already been named, set for the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 11 July 2026, an outdoor stage for a record he keeps redrawing indoors and out. The promise is characteristic: the bar named in advance, the clearance left to the night itself.

Fifteen times now, one centimetre at a time, Armand Duplantis has moved the limit of his sport. In Uppsala he did it at home.