Pole Vaulter Mondo Duplantis Runs to His Girlfriend for a Kiss After Setting World Record at Olympics

Swedish pole vaulter  Armand "Mondo" Duplantis commemorated his latest Olympic win with a celebration fit for the “city of love.”

The 24-year-old athlete was photographed embracing and kissing his girlfriend, Desire Inglander. after he broke the world record for pole vaulting and earned a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday, Aug. 5. 

Duplantis could be seen running over to Inglander, who was in tears after his win, and hugging her. He could then be seen going in for a smooch as several other onlookers behind them appeared to cheer. 

Inglander captured the winning moment on video and shared it on Instagram, which showed Duplantis completing his turn before running over to her in the stands. The fashion model wrote, “forever your biggest fan” over the clip that he later reshared on his Instagram Stories.   

The Lafayette, La., native, meanwhile, soared above the chord line at 6.25m in the men’s pole vault final to land atop of the podium at the Stade de France. Team USA’s Sam Kendricks took the silver, clearing 5.95m while Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis took bronze with a height of 5.90m.

"What can I say? I just broke a world record at the Olympics, the biggest possible stage for a pole vaulter,” Duplantis told reporters after his win, per the Olympics.com. “[My] biggest dream since a kid was to break the world record at the Olympics, and I’ve been able to do that in front of the most ridiculous crowd I’ve ever competed in front of.”

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“I haven’t processed how fantastic that moment was," he continued. "It’s one of those things that don’t really feel real, such an out-of-body experience. It’s still hard to kind of land right now.”

Duplantis’ showing at the Olympic games was the ninth time he broke the world record, according to the Olympics.com. He had previously broken the world record at the Xiamen Diamond League in April.

He said that ahead of the jump, he “tried to clear” his thoughts “as much as” he could, and to drown out the chants of his name “Mondo,” which reverberated throughout the stadium. 

"The crowd was going crazy,” he recalled. “It was so loud in there, it sounded like an American football game. I have a little bit of experience being in a 100,000-capacity stadium, but I was never the center of attention.” 

“[I was] just trying to channel the energy everybody was giving me, and they were giving me a lot of it,” he added. “It worked out.”

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