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Mondo did it again.
For the second straight year at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Lafayette High’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis set the world junior pole vaulting record. The senior bested the mark (19-4.25) he set last year at the same event with a vault of 19-5 Saturday afternoon, doing so on his third and final attempt at that height.
Duplantis, an LSU signee, finished in third in the elite pole vaulting division, behind France’s Renaud Lavillenie and Canada’s Shawn Barbe. Barbe and Lavillenie, Duplantis’ childhood hero who won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and owns the world record, tied for first.
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