Paris (AFP)
Armand Duplantis can have a smile on this February 8: at only twenty years old, he has just crossed 6.17 m in the Torun hall (Poland) to beat the world record for the pole vault of his idol of youth, the French Renaud Lavillenie.
Swedish by his mother, "Mondo", who was born and raised in Louisiana in the United States, is a prodigy of the discipline which has broken all records among young people.
At the start of 2020 he is in an insolent form which allows him to improve his mark a week later in Glasgow (6.18 m), before crossing 6.15 m in Rome in September to become the best performer of the story in the open, in front of the legend Sergei Bubka.
European champion in 2018, vice-world champion in 2019, he is the big favorite for the Olympic title in Tokyo in 2021.
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