Duplantis named BBC World Sport Star of the Year

Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has been named BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year for 2024.

Duplantis - more commonly known as Mondo - is regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time and enjoyed another record-breaking year in 2024.

The 25-year-old retained his Olympic title in Paris - becoming the first back-to-back champion in men's pole vault since the 1950s.

In doing so, he broke both the Olympic and world record - the latter for the ninth time in his career, and second time this year.

He went on to break the world record again later in August, setting a new best of 6.26m at the Diamond League meeting in Silesia, and also won a second world indoor title and third European gold in 2024.

The BBC World Sport Star of the Year was voted for by BBC Sport users.

Two Americans - gymnast Simone Biles and basketball player Caitlin Clark - plus Swiss wheelchair racer Catherine Debrunner, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan and French swimmer Leon Marchand were also shortlisted.

Duplantis set a new world record three times in 2024, first by vaulting 6.24m in April at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China.

He went a centimetre higher in the Olympic final in Paris, as he finished 30cm clear of silver medallist Sam Kendricks.

And he went even higher - to the current record height of 6.26m - in Poland a few weeks later.

Duplantis is the second successive Scandinavian to win the World Sport Star award, following Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland in 2023.