Armand Duplantis

Athlete

1999-11-10

Armand Duplantis is a pole vaulter who represents Sweden in international competition. He was born on 1999-11-10 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He has set multiple world records in the mens pole vault and won Olympic and world titles.

Quotes by Armand Duplantis

If I feel like I am becoming stagnant then I will try something new. I am always going to be trying to get to a new level.
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I wear Sweden across my chest and I do it proudly.
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I love being a Sweden athlete.
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I wanted to jump some days. I wanted to not jump some days. Some days I wanted to jump left-handed. Some days I wanted to jump in my underwear.
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I've been guilty of not taking my first and even second attempts too seriously. Knowing you have a third attempt is not always a good thing. It doesn't allow as much breathing room as you think. So golf has helped me there. Every shot matters. And now I take that attitude into every vault. I know now not to take any attempt lightly.
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When I was 13 I played baseball the whole summer. I never touched a pole vault pole.
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At the end of the day it's just pole vault. I try not to over calculate.
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Breaking the world record for the first time in Torun was a very crazy feeling. There was this rush of emotions that flooded through my body as I cleared the bar and it was hard to believe that it actually happened.
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Each world record feels like it brings something a bit different out of me.
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I know I'm capable of great things. I could jump really high and break world records and push boundaries that no man has gone into.
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That's a pretty big advantage to this journey that I've been able to have, is that I was able to start at such a young age because my father built a setup and I was able to build a technique from 3 years up to now. Without the backyard, I'm not whatever I am today. I knew that none of my classmates were pole vaulting.
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