Bubka dominated the 80s and 90s, by age 24, he cleared 6.06 meters, and at 30, he peaked at 6.14 meters. An 8 cm improvement over six years. But Mondo is built different – and he is still so young for his body…

Now, Mondo at 24 has already upped his WR for the 10th time with his 6.26m jump, and experts believe he will add another foot to that!

https://polevaulter.ai/pole-vault-news/how-high-can-mondo-duplantis-pole-vault

I think the article is right and he will be over 6.54m. Thoughts?

Posted by Miserable-Lecture-65

9 comments

  1. There’s a good chance we’ll never know due to the incentive structure around the world record. To get to 6.54m would take another 28 world record jumps because there’s a financial incentive to raise the WR by 1 cm at a time.

    There’s a chance he could jump 6.5m today, but he won’t attempt it in competition. By the time he gets the WR to 6.35 or 6.40 maybe his physical condition has declined that tiny bit and he never takes the WR any higher.

  3. I hate how measurements are all in metres and OP has to add “a foot” in the middle of a sentence

  4. Looks like he could go another 10-15 cm. And he will do that at the smallest increments possible for bonus reasons.

  6. I don’t know how high he could jump, all I know is that I wonder which weird headspace some people are in if they’re looking at what Duplantis is accomplishing and think “He’s doing it wrong”.

    He could be running backwards and I wouldn’t complain. Who am I to say how he should be going about things? Just take it all in, enjoy and be impressed.

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