Mondo Duplantis broke the pole vault world record for the 12th time in his career in front of a delighted home crowd in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mondo Duplantis fulfilled a “dream” by setting his latest pole vault world record in his home county of Sweden. The 25-year-old has now broken the world record 12 times, bettering the record he managed in February by 1cm on his home turf in Stockholm.

Mondo Duplantis' 12th time breaking the world record in the pole vault goes down as one of his most memorable of the dozen. For the first time, he did it in his home country of Sweden. "I kept saying that it was the only thing that I was missing in the accolades,