From record breaker, to record maker…published at 11:14 Greenwich Mean Time
Men’s pole vault
Image source, Getty ImagesIn between winning every gold available to him, and seemingly breaking world records at will, Mondo Duplantis has started to find new ways to keep himself entertained.
On the same day that he broke
the world record for the 11th time in his career by clearing 6.27m
in France last month, the 25-year-old released his first single, ‘Bop’.
Music is something the Swedish star says he intends to do more of as he looks to explore his other talents in preparation
for life after his record-breaking athletics career.
“Pole vaulting is not everything. It doesn’t completely define me as who I am and everything,” said Duplantis, who retained his Olympic title last summer.
“Music is just something I kept to myself, in a way, because in the beginning I didn’t really have any expectations of what I was going to do. And then I just found myself in a situation in a studio a couple of years ago, and I just thought it was unbelievably fun.
“I just got completely absorbed in it, and it was a way of completely taking myself out of pole vaulting and very therapeutic for me, and be in the moment in such a good way.
“It’s something that I do, and something that I’ll continue to do more of.”