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The men's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 and 5 August 2024 at Stade de France. This was the 30th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal, setting a world record of 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in).
Gold medalist Armand Duplantis of Sweden celebrates with family and staff members after setting a new world record during the Men's Pole Vault Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at ...
If you needed more proof of just how iconic Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikeç has become during these 2024 Paris Olympics, look no further than Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis.
Duplantis, the Lafayette, Louisiana-born Swedish pole vaulting sensation, won Olympic gold with a jump of 6.10 meters and then became one of Paris 2024's forever athletes once the competition was ...
He set a new personal best of 5.75 metres competing in France in January 2024, and matched that again two weeks later in Miramas. [4] He qualified for the final of the pole vault at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, placing eleventh overall. [5] He competed in the pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [6] [7]
The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running. [5]
The Swede broke fresh ground in Paris with a clearance of 6.25m – having already secured the second Olympic gold of his young career Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record again to top ...
In spite of its longer history, the men's Olympic event has only seen three world record marks – a clearance of 4.09 m (13 ft 5 in) by Frank Foss at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, Władysław Kozakiewicz's vault of 5.78 m (18 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) to win at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and Armand Duplantis' 2024 winning clearance of 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in).