Beijing – Canada’s Derek Drouin won the men’s high jump gold medal with a 2.34m clearance in a sudden-death finale at the world championships on Sunday.
Drouin went into a jump-off with defending champion Bogdan Bondarenko of Ukraine and China’s Zhang Guowei after all three had identical cards, no failures up to 2.33 metres but none able to clear 2.36.
After the trio had failed at 2.36 for a fourth time, the bar was lowered to 2.34.
The 25-year-old Drouin, a bronze medal winner at the 2013 world championships, went first and cleared it before Bondarenko and Zhang failed to share the silver medal. – Reuters