Nicely, that is the primary launch on the place Mondo will compete post-new WR!
Mondo Duplantis, photograph by @fbkgames
His 6.20m new world report offers the worldwide star an enormous cache in our sport. Mondo Duplantis is colourful, thrilling, and extremely gifted. Followers might not know tips on how to pole vault, however they will certainly admire an athlete clearing six meters, plus 20 centimeters!
Mondo will compete in Hengelo, The Netherlands, on the FBK Video games on June 6, 2022.
Mondo Duplantis can be competing throughout the globe this yr, as he prepares for the World Outside Championships, to be held in Eugene, Oregon from July 15-24, 2022.
World Champion Armand Duplantis returns to Hengelo
World champion and world report holder pole vault Armand Duplantis is about to return to the forty first version of the FBK Video games on Monday, June sixth, 2022. The exceptional 22-year-old high-flyer simply turned the Indoor World Champion in Belgrade this previous weekend. Duplantis improved his two-week-old indoor world report from 6.19m to six.20m. By coming again to Hengelo, Duplantis returns to the place the place he jumped his season’s finest rating of 6.10m of final season. Lower than two months later, he turned the Olympic Champion in Tokyo. Previously years, there have been no brakes on the younger Mondo, which he’s referred to as affectionately. In his younger profession, he already received 13(!) Diamond League occasions which he has carried out in since 2018 and has change into the 2018 and 2019 European Champions each outside and indoor.
Mondo Duplantis, photograph by @fbkgames
Understanding Duplantis he’ll increase the bar greater in Hengelo on June sixth than his present FBK Video games report of 6.10m. Possibly he’ll even attempt to enhance on his outside world report of 6.15m which stands since 2020.
Duplantis: “Final yr I participated in Hengelo for the primary time. I jumped 6.10m and broke the assembly report. Though solely 1500 spectators had been allowed within the stadium resulting from COVID measures I had a blast leaping there. To listen to the roar of the gang was superior. I believe that this yr it is going to be even cooler with not solely 1500, however a stadium filled with spectators. Subsequent to that Hengelo is a superb facility and a spot the place you’ll be able to actually bounce excessive, so I’m trying ahead to returning this yr.”
Mondo Duplantis, photograph by @fbkgames
Ellen van Langen, Assembly Director FBK Video games: “We’re very comfortable that Mondo Duplantis returns to the FBK Video games. Duplantis chooses his occasions rigorously. He feels at residence in Hengelo, partly due to the nice interplay he has with our followers. With full stands, I’m anticipating an actual spectacle!”
The FBK Video games is the one athletics occasion on the world stage within the Netherlands and is a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold. A sequence of 12 meets. The ticket gross sales are open. Go to www.fbkgames.nl for extra data.
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