On the tenth day of the Paris Olympics, Armand "Mondo" Duplantis of Sweden won gold—and set a new world record during the men's pole vault record. Duplantis, who was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, chose to compete for Sweden in honor of his mother's heritage.
After he broke the world record and won gold, he ran to the stands to embrace his parents, and his girlfriend, Desiré Inglander.
"Desiré brings me such a great balance in life,” Duplantis said earlier this year. "It’s so nice to be able to come home and escape into a completely different world, absorb ourselves in each other and whatever we’re doing. She’s a great travel buddy."
Here, meet Desiré Inglander, Mondo Duplantis's girlfriend:
She's a Swedish model and influencer.
Inglander has hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok (@desiresinglander) and Instagram (@desireinglander), where she shares outfit snaps and other glimpses at her life in Sweden.
Inglander and Duplantis started dating in 2020.
They met at a Midsummer party in Stockholm, where Inglander was "very single and not ready to mingle," as she said. "I was in the mood of, ‘I’m going to do my own thing, nobody can stop me.'"
Duplantis recalls, “The problem was, people flirt in a very different way in Sweden than where I’m from. [In Louisiana] there’s a lot more talking – you talk for a long time. So at the party, I was just trying to talk to Desiré, like ‘Hey, what’s up, I’m Mondo...’ but she didn’t want anything to do with it or me. She just wanted to dance."
They started talking via Snapchat, and finally went on a date a few months later.
She's Mondo's "biggest fan."
Inglander is always in the stands during Duplantis's pole vault competitions, cheering him on throughout his record breaking career. Per Vogue Scandinavia, "Uninhibited shows of affection during live competition broadcasts have cemented their relationship in the public eye."
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