WATCH: New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr goes viral for bailing out last moment, wins Gold minutes later
India TV NewsWATCH: New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr goes viral for bailing out last moment, wins Gold minutes later New Zealand athlete Hamish Kerr won the jump-off against the USA's Shelby McEwen to win the men's high jump event at the Paris Olympics. However, the path to the Gold medal for the Kiwi high jumper wasn't easy as he had a foul start where he jumped under the bar instead of over it. It is a good time to be a 27-year-old athlete at the Paris Olympics as after Noah Lyles and Arshad Nadeem, New Zealand's Hamish Kerr scripted history winning the Gold medal in men's high jump final after prevailing in a one-of-a-kind jump-off against the USA's Shelby McEwen. As Kerr ran in to jump over the bar, he instead jumped under it onto the mat as it looked like someone, who had never participated in the high jump was taking part.
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