Sweden’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis cleared 6.29 metres at the Gyulai István Memorial meeting in Budapest on 12 August, adding one centimetre to his own pole-vault world record set two months earlier in Stockholm. The 25-year-old achieved the height on his second attempt, securing another emphatic win at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event. The mark is Duplantis’s 13th world record and his third of 2025, following jumps of 6.27 m in Clermont-Ferrand in February and 6.28 m in June. The double Olympic champion has now won 33 consecutive competitions since July 2021, underscoring a dominance that has left rivals scrambling for silver. In Budapest, Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis finished second with 6.02 m and Australia’s Kurtis Marschall took third at 5.83 m. Duplantis heads to next month’s World Championships in Tokyo as the overwhelming favourite to claim a third straight outdoor global title.