It didn’t take Mondo Duplantis and Lisa Gunnarsson long to make their marks on the all-time lists for the LSU track and field program.
Duplantis, a freshman from Lafayette, and Gunnarsson, a sophomore from Paris, France, bettered the school’s men’s and women’s pole vault records Friday on the first day of the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Duplantis, the European pole vault champion this past summer while competing for Sweden, won the men’s title with a leap of 19 feet, 1½ inches.
Gunnarsson, a transfer from Virginia Tech, got the day off to a good start for the Lady Tigers by finishing third in the women’s vault at 14-9½ — which easily eclipsed the old school record.
