Following an Olympic record clearance of 6.10m, he went on to set his ninth consecutive world record, clearing 6.25m at his third attempt.
It is also the second Olympics where eight men cleared 5.80m or higher, and the second Games where four men managed 5.90m or more.
Earlier, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who raised the women’s high jump world record to 2.10m when she last visited Paris in July, found the French capital to be a happy hunting ground once more as she added an Olympic gold to the bronze she won three years ago in Tokyo.
And the concluding gold of the night, in the decathlon, went to Norway’s Marcus Rooth, who had overtaken the overnight leader Leo Neugebauer in the penultimate event before claiming gold in a national record of 8796.
With Kumiko Okada and Ayane Yanai withdrawing to focus on the mixed relay, the women's 20 km race walk had only one Japanese athlete, Nanako Fujii. With China's Jiayu Yang leading all three medalists under 1:26:00 in 1:25:54, Fujii was a distant 32nd in 1:34:26.
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