Unheralded Brazilian Thiago Braz Da Silva sent the home crowd wild Monday Aug 15,2016 as he trumped France's defending Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie to win the men's pole vault title
In a thrilling competition in which Lavillenie was jeered every time he vaulted, Da Silva won gold with an Olympic record of 6.03 metres.
Lavillenie pitched everything on a last-gasp vault at 6.08m, but failed and had to be content with silver with a best of 5.98m.
American Sam Hendricks took bronze with 5.85.
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