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The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, tweeted congratulations. Drouin’s medal was the first for Canada in men’s track and field since 1996 and first in a field event since high jumper Greg Joy took silver at Montreal in 1976.

Drouin could have become a pro after that but returned to campus in 2013 for a final season of eligibility. He won national titles indoors and outdoors, making him the first five-time NCAA high jump champion. He won the Bowerman Award, college track and field’s version of the Heisman Trophy. He and two other Hoosiers—Jim Spivey (1982) and Sunder Nix (1984)—are the only track and field athletes ever to win the Jesse Owens Award as the Big Ten’s male all-sports athletes of the year.

Although he didn’t break the collegiate record of 7–9¾ held by Southwestern Louisiana’s Hollis Conway, Drouin had one of the most prolific seasons ever by a collegiate high jumper. Conway had fourteen meets of 7–7 or higher in 1989, seven coming after the college season. Drouin had eleven such meets, four after the college season. During an indoor heptathlon, he jumped 7–6½, a world record for multievents.