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New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr has won Olympic gold after beating his American rival Shelby McEwen in a dramatic jump-off. The pair could have shared the title but McEwen rejected the offer, deciding not to follow in the footsteps of Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi in Tokyo three years ago. It was easy to understand why McEwen wanted to claim gold all for himself after being upstaged by Kerr at the indoor world championships in March.
Kerr said he has “so much respect” for Barshim and Tamberi sharing the gold in Tokyo in what became one of the greatest moments of those Olympics. “But I always thought that to add to the story and to be able to be given the chance to actually do the jump-off would be so amazing,” the Kiwi said. “I knew straight away we were going to make history and we did that.” Barshim, incidentally, took bronze on a countback from Stefano Sottile after both cleared 2.34m but could not jump any higher.
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