Why did Mondo Duplantis receive a higher prize money compared to Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the Silesia Diamond League? All about World record bonus

Mondo Duplantis received the prize bonus of $10,000 at the Silesia Diamond League, despite Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen too breaking the world record in his event. This was because the Swedish-American pole vaulter broke his own world record for a record 10th time, while the Norwegian runner broke a 28-year-old world record in the 3000m event.

Mondo Duplantis broke his own record, set at the 2024 Paris Olympics earlier this month, by jumping to 6.26m in the men's pole vault. On the other hand, Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran the 3000m clocking 07:17.55 at the Silesia Diamond League 2024. Since the previous record was set in 1996, the Norwegian runner fell 19 points short of the grand bonus offered by the Silesia Diamond League organizers.

Interestingly, each time Mondo Duplantis breaks the world record, he gets $100,000 as a bonus. However, there's a condition. According to Forbes magazine, the bonus can be earned only once during a meet. So, if Duplantis breaks his record twice in a meet, he would still take home $100,000 and not $200,000.

Mondo Duplantis broke the world record by a centimeter, doing it successfully for the tenth time at the Silesia Diamond League, as he jumped up to a height of 6.26m, breaking his own record set just a couple of weeks ago at the recently concluded Olympic Games.

On the other hand, Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke the world record in 3000m, which had stood for 28 years. The previous World Record was set in 1996 by Kenya's Daniel Komen. The Norwegian runner fell just 19 points short of the grand bonus, in comparison to the Swedish pole vaulter.

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Mondo Duplantis' performance at the Paris Olympics

Armand Mondo Duplantis of Sweden bites his gold medal from men's pole vault at the Paris Olympics 2024 [Image Source: Getty]

Mondo Duplantis had entered the Paris Olympics as the reigning world champion, as well as the reigning Olympic champion. His consistency could be ascertained from the fact that he had broken the world record for men's pole vault eight times in the last four years, i.e. at least twice every year.

In April 2024, at the Xiamen leg of the IAAF Diamond League, Duplantis improved his world record by one centimeter to 6.24m. Interestingly, he couldn't even clear the basic qualification mark of 5.8m to qualify for the finals. However, he was lucky that none of the other athletes could achieve it either. He was tied along with four other pole vaulters at the 5.75m mark to qualify for the finals under a top-5 finish.

In the finals, the competition was intense until the mark of 5.95m, which only Sam Kendricks of USA and Mondo Duplantis managed to clear. The Olympic record for this event was 6.03m, which was created by Thiago Braz at the Rio Olympics in 2016. However, Duplantis had other plans.

He sealed his Olympic gold medal when Kendricks failed to breach the 6m mark. He broke the Olympic record by soaring to 6.1m in a single attempt. However, his next attempt of 6.25m was far from a cakewalk. Mondo Duplantis failed twice in his attempt to clear the mark and better his own world record. However, the Swedish-American pole vaulter cleared the mark in the third and final attempt and bagged the gold in style.