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Derek Drouin Talks About His World Championships Jump Off - SPIKES

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Protect Ya Neck (the Jump Off)

Published by SPIKES on October 12, 2015

Derek Drouin triumphed in a spell binding three-man jump off to strike high jump gold at the Beijing World Championships. The Canadian tells us how he reigned supreme in athletics’ version of the penalty shootout.

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It was the final day of a thrilling world championships in the Bird’s Nest Stadium. Nothing could separate Derek Drouin, China’s Guowei Zhang (King of Celebrations) and Ukrainian Bogdan Bondarenko, the defending champion, after all three cleared (or in Bondarenko’s case successfully passed) every attempt up to and including 2.33m at the first attempt. At the next height, 2.36m, each of the trio’s efforts were not enough. Result: JUMP OFF.

It was only the second jump off of Drouin's career. The first had come in a high school competition ten years ago, and back then he had been up against a teammate, which he says “hardly counts”.

“It was definitely a completely different scenario, but it’s probably not something you can prepare for,” he admits.



Read the full article at: spikes.iaaf.org

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