From the IAAF website coverage of the NACAC meet in Costa Rica:

In a modest and rather bizarre men’s pole vault final, El Salvador’s 17-year-old Natan Rivera was the only one of the six competitors to clear a height and emerged as the unheralded winner.

Rivera, who his country sadly didn’t even send to last month’s IAAF World Youth Championships, was the lowest ranked vaulter in the field and arrived in San Jose with a best set earlier this season of 4.67m. The teenager presumably was expecting just to witness a masterclass from the likes of USA’s 2007 world champion Brad Walker, a man who holds the area record with 6.04m, and Cuba’s Lazaro Borges, the 2011 world championships silver medallist, and had no realistic medal ambitions.

Rivera entered at the competition’s opening height of 4.55m and went over first time before clearing a personal best of 4.70m on his second attempt.

His competition came to an end after three failures at 4.85m but Walker, Borges and USA’s Nick Mossberg were still to start vaulting.

However, none of the trio mastered the swirling, breezy conditions and, with the bar well over five metres, all three failed their opening heights to leave Rivera as the totally unexpected gold medallist – and the only man standing on the podium when the medals were distributed.

His dream come true.

Good for him!  Any given Sunday/race day/championship.