{"id":102146,"date":"2026-06-07T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:53:14","slug":"australias-kurtis-marschall-defeats-armand-duplantis-in-mens-pole-vault-at-stockholm-diamond-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102146\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s Kurtis Marschall defeats Armand Duplantis in men’s pole vault at Stockholm Diamond League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall has pulled off a major upset, defeating world record holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis at the Stockholm Diamond League meet.<\/p>\n

Marschall handed Sweden’s two-time Olympic champion his first loss in more than 1,000 days when he cleared 5.90 metres to clinch victory.<\/p>\n

Duplantis could only manage a successful clearance of 5.80m to place second, well short of his world record mark of 6.31m.<\/p>\n

“I can’t believe it, I’m going to cherish this for my whole life,” said Marschall, a two-time World Championships bronze medallist.<\/p>\n

“They don’t come easy in this day and age.<\/p>\n

“I jumped great in these conditions, I’m very happy, but I know Mondo isn’t going to let it happen in the future.<\/p>\n

“This stadium wouldn’t be what it is without him, so to come here and to do it in front of this crowd, I’m cherishing every single moment.<\/p>\n

“He’s one of the best competitors and one of the best blokes. I love him with all my heart.”<\/p>\n

\"Armand<\/p>\n

Armand Duplantis (right) speaks with Kurtis Marschall during the men’s pole vault competition. (Getty Images: David Lidstrom)<\/p>\n

Duplantis, who has set the men’s pole vault record 15 times, had won 40 consecutive events.<\/p>\n

“Big hats off to Kurtis today, he was the better man and he beat me fair and square,” Duplantis said.<\/p>\n

“I have no excuses.”<\/p>\n

Australian teammates Matthew Denny and Cameron Myers also recorded podium finishes in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Olympic bronze medallist Denny was second in the men’s discus with a best throw of 69.02m.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s reigning world champion Daniel Stahl won with 69.60m.<\/p>\n

“I felt there was more to give and maybe I got a bit greedy on the last couple of rounds trying to get that bigger distance,” Denny said.<\/p>\n

“But it was a great competition and I’m really finding some good stuff that will be kind to me later in the season.”<\/p>\n

Myers was also second in his event, the men’s 1,500m.<\/p>\n

The Canberran stopped the clock in 3:30.32 to finish behind US Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse (3:30.11).<\/p>\n

“It’s not the outcome that I wanted but you have to play to how you feel on the day, and I didn’t feel great, which is frustrating,” Myers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall has pulled off a major upset, defeating world record holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[52215,32392,52255,33639,52217,52254,52114,52253,131,132,43174],"class_list":["post-102146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-armand-duplantis","tag-athletics","tag-cameron-myers","tag-diamond-league","tag-kurtis-marschall","tag-matthew-denny","tag-mondo-duplantis","tag-pole-vault","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-track-and-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116711051036715923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}