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Ian Chadband

Kiwi Kerr takes Olympic gold in high (then lower) jump

Gold medalist New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr reacts after winning a gold in Paris. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr just kept knocking the bar over - but he still ended up soaring to a bizarrely splendid Olympic gold medal at the Stade de France.

In one of the oddest competitions in Games high jump annals, the 27-year-old Aucklander triumphed in a jump-off with American Shelby McEwen, which neither seemed particularly keen to win.

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