Armand Duplantis isn’t just rewriting history; he’s practically sprinting ahead of it with a pole in hand.

On a night when most of the Tokyo crowd had already watched the evening’s events wrap up, thousands stayed glued to their seats, drawn to one final act: the world’s greatest pole vaulter preparing for yet another leap into the record books. And Duplantis, as always, delivered what everyone already expects from him.

With his very last attempt of the night, Duplantis soared over 6.30 meters, becoming the first person in history to clear that height and engraving his name into the record books for the 14th time. The moment  was the  third consecutive world championship title for the Swedish phenom and his eighth straight gold across all global indoor and outdoor competitions.

At 25, Duplantis is already a two-time Olympic champion and shows no signs of slowing down. After comfortably securing gold with a clean jump at 6.15m, he could have packed it in. But that’s not the Duplantis way. Instead, he pushed the bar a centimetre higher than ever before—literally—and went after it with the crowd clapping him into motion.

When Duplantis finally cleared the record-setting height, the stadium erupted. He bounced off the mat, arms raised, a blur of joy and disbelief as he soaked in the moment.

That leap was his fourth world record this year alone, a personal best in a career already packed with them. And the way things are going, there’s no telling where the ceiling actually is for Duplantis, or if one even exists