Armand Duplantis broke the world record for the 15th time in his career at his home meeting, the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, on Thursday (12) evening.
Competing for just the second time in 2026 after overcoming food poisoning in Clermont-Ferrand to clear 6.06m, Duplantis was in imperious form from his opening height. He cleared 5.65m, 5.90m and then 6.08m all on his first attempts.
Having secured victory against a field which included four other vaulters who have cleared 6.00m or higher this year, Duplantis inevitably requested that his next height should be a world record bar of 6.31m. And the 26-year-old duly cleared it on his first attempt, his 15th world record of his unparalleled career.
Duplantis enjoyed the adulation of his fellow competitors before wrapping himself in the Swedish flag and running over to celebrate his latest record-breaking triumph with his fiancé Desiré Inglander.
"This is my home. Every time I stand on the track I represent you and feel such pride to jump for you and Sweden," Duplantis told the crowd in his post-competition interview.
This was the second time Duplantis has broken the world record on Swedish soil but the first time indoors. He also cleared 6.28m for a euphoric victory at the Olympic Stadium in the Stockholm Diamond League last June.
The field assembled for the Mondo Classic was arguably the strongest line-up ever assembled for a men's pole vault outside of a major championships but Duplantis was operating on a different stratosphere with the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun (where he broke the world record for the first time in 2020) just eight days away.
Norway's 2023 European indoor champion Sondre Guttormsen, who improved to 6.06m in Rouen last Saturday, cleared 6.00m again to finish second behind Duplantis with Zach Bradford from the United States third with 5.90m.
Just days after clearing 6.06m before two very close attempts at 6.20m in Rouen, Greece's Emmanouil Karalis cleared his opening height of 5.80m on his second attempt before three failures at 6.00m to finish seventh.
Full results here
Armand Duplantis' 15 world records
6.17m - Torun (8 Feb 2020)
6.18m - Glasgow (15 Feb 2020)
6.19m - Belgrade (7 March 2022)
6.20m - Belgrade - World Indoors (20 March 2022)
6.21m - Eugene (24 July 2022)
6.22m - Clermont-Ferrand (25 February 2023)
6.23m - Eugene (17 September 2023)
6.24m - Xiamen (20 April 2024)
6.25m - Paris - Olympic Games (5 August 2024)
6.26m - Chorzów (25 August 2024)
6.27m - Clermont-Ferrand (28 February 2025)
6.28m - Stockholm (15 June 2025)
6.29m - Budapest (12 August 2025)
6.30m - Tokyo - World Championships (15 September 2025)
6.31m - Uppsala (12 March 2026)