Derek Drouin
DEREK DROUIN Hometown: Corunna, Ont. Birthdate: March 6, 1990 (27) Event: High jump, decathlon Coach: Jeff Huntoon Training base: Toronto, Ont. Education: Indiana University Twitter: @ddrouin10 Personal best: 2.40 metres, Des Moines, Iowa, April 25, 2014 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Gold 2.38, Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 16, 2016 Gold 2.34, IAAF World Championships, Beijing, China, Aug. 30, 2015 Gold 2.37, Pan American Games, Toronto, Ont., July 25, 2015 Gold 2.31, Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2014 Bronze 2.38, IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia, Aug. 15, 2013 Bronze tie, 2.29, 2012 Olympic Games, London, England, Aug. 7, 2012 2017 RESULTS 2.25 (3) Bislett Games – Diamond League, Oslo, Norway, June 15 2.30 (1) Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa, April 29 7,150 points (4) Sam Adams Combined Events Invitational Decathlon, Santa Barbara, Calif., April 8 2016 RESULTS 2.38 (1), Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 16 2.38 (1), Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting, Eberstadt, Germany, July 17 2.27 (7) Monaco Herculis – Diamond League, Monaco, France, July 15 2.30 (1), Canadian Track & Field Championships and Olympic Trials, Edmonton, Alta., July 9 2.29 (5) Doha – Diamond League, Doha, Qatar, May 6 2.24 (1) Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa, April 30 SNAPSHOP How do you follow up on a flawless performance that produced a high jump gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro? If you’re Derek Drouin, who is also the defending world champion in high jump, you apply your varied skill set to decathlon, the two-day, 10-event test of running, throwing and jumping.
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