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title: "Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis wins pole vault at Lausanne Diamond League; meet record 6.21m"
sdDatePublished: "2026-08-22T02:07:00Z"
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Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis wins pole vault at Lausanne Diamond League; meet record 6.21m

Diamond League Lausanne Athletissima 2026: Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis returns to winning ways in pole vault

Diamond League Lausanne Athletissima 2026: Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis returns to winning ways in pole vault

The two-time Olympic champion held off Greece's Emmanouil Karalis, two months after a rare defeat in Stockholm and a month after injury hampered him in London.

Reigning Olympic pole vault champion Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis was back to his winning ways on Thursday (20 August) at the Diamond League athletics meeting in Lausanne.

He cleared 6.21 metres for the victory, while Greece's Emmanouil Karalis was second, having gone 6.17m. Australia's Kurtis Marschall was third at 5.91m.

London 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie , 39, failed to clear 5.66m and finished in 11th place.

"I'm tired! But I feel really good, I feel really happy," Duplantis told World Athletics after two missed attempts at 6.32m. "That was such an amazing competition, everybody jumped so well, so I felt like I really had to step it up. I'm glad I jumped really well.

Saluting the his competitors on Thursday evening, he added, "I love to compete, I love competing against Manolo, especially when he is on his A-game like this. I just like to jump high. That's what I feel like I was made to do."

The Swede, who's reached heights no one else has in history, opened by clearing 5.51m on his first attempt before passing on 5.66m. He returned to the competition with first-attempt clearances at 5.81m, 5.91m and 6.01m.

It was then a two-man race between the Swede and Karalis with the duo both clearing 6.16m next. Duplantis went over 6.21m in his first attempt, a meet record, while the Greek failed to clear twice at the height before a final try at 6.26m.

Duplantis concluded with two misses at 6.32, which would have been a new world record, before he ultimately retired from the competition.

Earlier this season, Duplantis had a shock loss. He finished second at his home Diamond League meeting in Stockholm in early June, his first loss since 2023 as he finished second to Marschall.

Then, in his most recent Diamond League appearance on 18 July, he retired during competition when the series landed in London after clearing 5.95m. After competition, Duplantis cited a recurrent issue with his thigh.

"I felt it a few days ago after the competition in Budapest. At first it felt completely OK on the track, but then it came right away and it got much worse on the next jump. But I knew I couldn't jump after the 5.95 attempt," he told Swedish television, according to FlashScore .

The two-time Olympic champion in the event scored victories at the Diamond League stops in Shaoxing, Paris and Monaco.

He also won a fourth European title this month in Birmingham.

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