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“We had no idea he was a track superstar,” Canal said. “And he acted like a normal student. Nobody understood this guy being a big deal. Yes, he was tall and very lean, but that’s it.”

Canal, a dentist, later sent Drouin a message apologizing for not recognizing him.

Drouin’s response: “Haha. I’m quite content with not a lot of attention.”

He once sat at a table at York University in Toronto next to a sign asking, “Who am I?” Only one in ten could identify him, and he was already an Olympic medalist. That might have been welcomed by Drouin, but it sometimes rankled Jeff Huntoon, his coach since 2009.

“There’s not the level of respect that he deserves to have. It disappoints me greatly, actually,” Huntoon said.

Drouin’s technique was so good that colleagues told Huntoon that once the high jumper checks in for his event, the coach’s job is over. TV analyst Dwight Stones, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist in the high jump, called Drouin “maybe one of the best technicians in the event today.”