{"id":3354,"date":"2018-08-30T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2018\/08\/30\/duplantis-meeting-record-is-under-threat\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:09:13","slug":"duplantis-meeting-record-is-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2018\/08\/30\/duplantis-meeting-record-is-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplantis: \u2018Meeting record is under threat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After his sensational European championships in Berlin, where Duplantis took gold with a jump of 6m05, he return returned to the States. As a son of an American father and Swedish mother he is currently studying at the Louisiana State University. The Diamond League final is a good reason to come back to Europe.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&quot;Tomorrow in Brussels it\u2019s everything or nothing,\u201d Duplantis said on Thursday afternoon. \u201cAt championships it\u2019s about medals, but now it\u2019s about that diamond trophy. I heard the meeting record is 5m96 (set by Renaud Lavillenie in 2013). Well, I think that record is under threat tomorrow. Whether I\u2019m going to be the one breaking it, I don\u2019t know. That will depend on the form of the day. I aimed for the European championships, but it&#8217;s only been two weeks. I feel ready for a great performance tomorrow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With so many world-class competitors it\u2019s tough to predict if Armand Duplantis will win the Diamond League, or if that honour will go to the likes of Renaud Lavillenie, Timur Morgunov, Sam Kendricks, Shawn Barber, Piotr Lisek, Thiago Braz or someone else. But surely \u2018Mondo\u2019 will outperform his father Greg, who competed at the Memorial in the 90s. \u201cI have no idea how high he jumped then. Maybe 5m50?\u201d That\u2019s the correct answer!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s a height Armand Duplantis already cleared at the tender age of 16. \u201cI started pole vaulting as a four-year old in the garden,\u201d he reveals. &quot;In a way I\u2019m still doing the same thing as back then, only there\u2019s more people watching and I\u2019m jumping a bit higher. But I still enjoy it just as much. I can\u2019t imagine a life without the pole vault. Of course I\u2019m dreaming about the world record (6m16), but there\u2019s no masterplan. I do think we\u2019re on the right track.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGvV1W40Dls\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armand &#8216;Mondo&#8217; Duplantis is one of seven pole vaulters with a personal best in...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}