Duplantis wins his fourth gold in a row in the European Championship
The 26-year-old Swedish pertiguist has won loosely in Birmingham with a 6.15-meter jump, a modest mark for a jumper accustomed to his fans breaking world records.
Duplantis, during one of the jumps at the final in Birmingham.
Swedish pole jumper Armand Mondo Duplantis gave no room for surprise and won his fourth consecutive European championship at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham,United Kingdom, with a 6.15 metre mark.
Duplantis, 26, continues to magnify his myth as an unparalleled sportsman, who has long been competing only against himself and whose rivals, desperate, struggle to be on the podium knowing that victory is impossible if the Swede does not have a bad day or make a mistake.
The Swede has beaten the world record 15 times to 6.31 meters and won without much opposition in Birmingham with a modest 6.15 meter jump, as Duplantis is accustomed to watching his fans break records.
The silver has gone to theGreek Emmanouil Karalis with a jump of 6.00 m. Thus, Karalis repeats the second place he won in Rome two years ago. Since competing with Duplantis he is always a runner-up. Baptiste Thiery french has won the bronze medal witha mark of 5.85 m.
The Duplantis Palmaris includes two Olympic gold (Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024), three World Championships (Eugene 2022, Budapest 2023 and Tokyo 2025) and four covered tracks (Belgrade 2022, Glasgow 2024, Nanjing 2025 and Torun 2026), as well as four European championships (Berlin 2018, Munich 2022, Rome 2024 and Birmingham 2026) and one covered track (Torun 2021).