Establishing himself on par with golf legend Tiger Woods’ record of 18 World Golf Championships, Mondo Duplantis prefers his sport like golf as well. The LSU alum sitting at the top of the pole vault marking in terms of number of weeks can only be compared to the achievement of Tiger Woods. Furthering the comparison, in his confession to Citius Mag, the Olympic champion weighed up his pole stick with the golf club. On an additional note, the LSU graduate claimed something big about his coach’s role as well.
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On the golf course, Tiger Woods may never ignore his caddy’s role in accompanying him to bag all those records and championship titles. Taking a thorough comparison from that, the 3x Diamond League winner argued, “You’re trying to get those numbers right with your coach, who is pretty much your caddy.” Talking about the numbers, Mondo Duplantis set himself apart from his opponents by miles (meters!).
🗣️ "A little bit of it is kind of similar to golf to where you’re trying to find your numbers. You’re trying to pick what pole to use, where to run from and you’re trying to get those numbers right with your coach, who is pretty much your caddy."
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Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis appeared with a champion’s mindset in the recently concluded Xiamen Diamond League. And in the process, he broke his own record to win the crown. This year, in Xiamen, the Swede pole vaulter cleared a whooping 6.24m to set his name in history. Eventually, it was one centimeter above the mark Mondo Duplantis crossed in Eugene last year. Not only that, it was the 8th time in his career that the 24-year-old track and field athlete took the world record to the cleaners.
Also in the Glasgow Indoors this year, the track and field champion crossed the bar with the mark of 6.05 in March. That also came out to be world-leading time indoors. In the way of claiming such a record, Mondo could not display the elementary moves initially. However, a champion’s mindset, just like Tiger Woods, helped him to pull out from the debacle and post a mark of 6.05 meters.
Now after bagging the world record, Mondo Duplantis will head to Shanghai/Suzhou to participate in the ongoing Diamond League series. Eventually, the 24-year-old American-born Swedish is on a quest that may set up firmly alongside Mr. T.
Mondo Duplantis chases superiority before the Paris Olympics
With the Xiamen Diamond League title in the pocket, Mondo Duplantis can now brag of an unparalleled feat. Since the Budapest Worlds last year, the pole vaulter now possesses 10 titles in this timeline. He has made the achievement more shiny by recording consecutively better marks in five contests. In the pole vault world, such a feat is as rare as the presence of mistakes in Mondo’s performances in recent times! He will appear in Shanghai/Suzhou with a similar goal- to surpass his own record. But another milestone will be in his mind.
If he wins in Shanghai/Suzhou, that will be his fourth Diamond League title- 3 less than the pole vault legend, Renaud Lavillenie’s achievement. Mondo will be looking to topple the French veteran in this season. So again, he might employ the golf tactics- finding the numbers and discussing those with the coach.
