{"id":8252,"date":"2024-12-17T19:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sports-personality-of-the-year-2024-armand-duplantis-named-world-sport-star\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:39:44","slug":"sports-personality-of-the-year-2024-armand-duplantis-named-world-sport-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sports-personality-of-the-year-2024-armand-duplantis-named-world-sport-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Personality of the Year 2024: Armand Duplantis named World Sport Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC World Sport Star of the Year was voted for by BBC Sport users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two Americans &#8211; gymnast Simone Biles and basketball player Caitlin Clark &#8211; plus Swiss wheelchair racer Catherine Debrunner, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan and French swimmer Leon Marchand were also shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went a centimetre higher in the Olympic final in Paris, as he finished 30cm clear of silver medallist Sam Kendricks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And he went even higher &#8211; to the current record height of 6.26m &#8211; in Poland a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duplantis is the second successive Scandinavian to win the World Sport Star award, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/sports-personality\/67726030\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/czenyx0yglwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC World Sport Star of the Year was voted for by BBC Sport users. Two Americans &#8211; gymnast Simone Biles and basketball player Caitlin Clark &#8211; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}