Armand "Mondo" Duplantis has won gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
The pole vaulter from Lafayette cleared 6.02 meters on his first attempt, and that turned out to be good enough to secure the top spot.
Duplantis was one of 14 men to advance to Tuesday's finals after clearing 5.75 in the qualification round.
To open the finals round, Duplantis cleared 5.8 meters, a height that only seven vaulters, or half of the finals field, made.
He would pass on an attempt at 5.87 meters while two other competitors cleared that mark -- American Christopher Nilsen and Brazil's Thiago Braz (the defending gold medalist).
That left four vying for medals: Duplantis, Nilsen, Braz and France's Renaud Lavillenie, a former world champion who missed at 5.87 meters and then later passed at that height.