![]() "Winning an Olympic gold is the dream," he added. Any record where you can knock him down a ranking is a pretty special feeling."ĭuplantis won silver behind American Sam Kendrick at the World Championships in Doha in 2019, but has won all 16 events he has competed in since. He was not really real in the things that he was doing, they didn't really seem possible. "Growing up as a kid in event you see Bubka as almost this mythological creature. ![]() "That was the main motivation for the outdoor season at the end to really get the 6.15m and cement myself as the highest ever jumper outdoors," Duplantis added. LISTEN: More from Duplantis on Sport Today on BBC Sounds.Ukrainian Bubka, a legend in the discipline who won world and Olympic gold and broke the world record more than 30 times, has said Duplantis could clear as high as 6.25m.ĭuplantis admits that the prospect of eclipsing Bubka at the top of the outdoor standings kept him going throughout a 2020 season restricted by coronavirus. "How high? I don't know, but I think there is more to come." I definitely don't think I am done progressing. "I definitely think I can jump higher," Duplantis told BBC World Service Sport. Duplantis also beat Sergey Bubka's 1994 effort to record the highest ever outdoor clearance with a 6.15m vault in Rome in September.
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