Duplantis, 25 years old, after having inflamed his audience on June 15th in Stockholm bringing the primacy to 6.28, at the ‘Memorial Istvan Gyulaì in Budapest exceeded the measure of 6.29 to the second attempt. For Armand Duplantis it is the thirteenth record. The first dates back to February 8, 2020 when he jumped 6.17 in Torun (Poland) by sending Lavillenie 6.16 to the Annals. On February 15, a few days after the outbreak of the Pandemia di Coronavirus, the second record, 6.18 always indoor but still equated to the outdoor ones. Two years later, on March 7, 2022, in Belgrade the third record, 6.19, before 6.20 two weeks later. At the Eugene World Cup, precisely on July 24, 2022, the first outdoor world record, 6.21. From February 2023, when a progression of seven centimeters jumped 6.22 to today, always centimeter after centimeter. Duplantis is unbeaten between the Olympics, World Championships and European by the Indoor continental event of Torun 2021. In the middle two Olympic golds in Tokyo in 2021 and Paris 2024, two World Cup, in Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023, three indoor world championships, Belgrade 2022, Glasgow 2024 and Nanchino 2025, and two Europeans, Monaco, Monaco. Bavaria 2022 and Rome 2024.
Forty years and a month ago the ‘Tsar’ Sergej Bubka valued for the first time the 6.00 meters in the jump with the auction, the specialty of the athletics of the funamboli, acrobats, the longest race of the program on the track, the first that begins and among the last to finish the session. Now, 40 years later, Bubka is no longer Soviet, he is not even Russian, he is Ukrainian, but above all he has no longer been the world record holder for 31 years. Sergej had become famous because he went up one centimeter at a time. To copy the ‘Maestrò di Lugansk, Armand’ Mondò Duplantis is thinking about it, who brought the world record to 6.29 meters in Budapest. That of the Swedish champion, American dad and Swedish mom, is the thirteenth consecutive primacy, the first in Budapest in the stadium of the second world gold, that of two years ago. The world champion of the jump with the auction since 31 August 1984, when in Rome, Bubka earned 5.94, for the next 41 years he was marked by the companies of Sergej and Armand. Between the two there is one thing strictly in common: climbing the sky centimeter after centimeter. In fact, scrolling through the progression of the world record for 41 years to date there is no greater space in the centimeter. Sergej when he valued 6.15 meters indoors (6.14 outdoors) seemed the ‘Martianò projected on the planet Earth. Now Armand has done much more, he entered the orbit exceeding 6.29, almost like a cosmonaut but without rocket and only with a shirt and shorts.