 "Armand Duplantis is undisputed king of men's pole vault event in the world. Reuters")
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis captured the pole vault gold on Monday with a world record effort of 6.25m. It was also the ninth time he bettered the world record. He first broke the world record in February 2020 and has since broken it eight more times.
Sergey Bubka (USSR) was the first man to reach the six-metre mark in the pole vault in July 1985 in Paris, the record has been broken 23 times since then including Duplantis’ latest record.
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Bubka improved the record 12 times.
A look at the evolution of the world record in the six-metre era:
6.00m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 13, 1985 at Paris
6.01m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1986 at Moscow
6.03m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 23, 1987 at Prague
6.05m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 at Bratislava
6.06m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 10, 1988 at Nice
6.07m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), May 6, 1991 at Shizuoka
6.08m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 at Moscow
6.09m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1991 at Formia
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6.10m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), August 5, 1991 at Malmo
6.11m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), June 13, 1992 at Dijon
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More Shorts6.12m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), August 30, 1992 at Padova
6.13m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), September 19, 1992 at Tokyo
6.14m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), July 31, 1994 at Sestrieres
6.16m: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA), February 15, 2014 at Donetsk - indoors
6.17m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 8, 2020 at Torun - indoors
6.18m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 15, 2020 at Glasgow - indoors
6.19m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), March 7, 2022 at Belgrade - indoors
6.20m: Armand Duplantis (SWE) March 20, 2022 at Belgrade - indoors
6.21m: Armand Duplantis (SWE) July 24, 2022 at Eugene - outdoors
6.22m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 25, 2023 at Clermont-Ferrand – indoors
6.23m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), September 17, 2023 at Eugene
6.24m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), April 20, 2024 at Xiamen
6.25m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), August 5, 2024 at Paris
Note: Since 2000, the distinction between a world record set outdoors and set indoors was removed.