Armand Duplantis stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 m) tall.
Armand Duplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter and the current world record holder with a height of 6.21 metres and the current Olympic champion and World champion.
He was born on November 10, 1999, in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States to Greg Duplantis and Helena Hedlund.
Armand’s father Greg Duplantis is a former pole vaulter with a personal best of 5.80 m (19 ft 1⁄2 in), while his mother Helena Hedlund Duplantis is a former heptathlete and volleyball player.
He has three siblings, Andreas Duplantis, Antoine Duplantis and Johanna Duplantis.
Duplantis started pole vaulting at age 3 at the family’s home in Lafayette, Louisiana, and took to the event rapidly; he set his first age group world best at age 7, and his jump of 3.86 m (12 ft 8 in) as a 10-year-old surpassed the previous world bests for ages 11 and 12 as well.
At age 15, he won gold at the 2015 World Youth Championships and holds many age group world bests.
Duplantis won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships with a height of 6.05 metres (19 ft 10 in) (a new under-20s world record), and the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
Duplantis also won the 2020 Diamond League, the 2021 European Indoor Championships, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In 2022, he became world champion at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and world champion at the 2022 World Athletics Championship.
In 2020, Duplantis was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.