The Milton Keynes-born athlete produced a leap of 8.31metres in the fourth round, four centimetres shy of his lifetime best, to win the crown. It was not an especially long jump by elite long-jumping standards, but it was good enough to beat a wide-open field shorn of reigning Olympic champion Irving Saladino who had crashed out in qualifying with three no-jumps.
Speaking the morning after he won his gold medal, Rutherford said that he had barely slept and had just "stared at the ceiling".
"I don't think it's hit me what's happened," Rutherford said.
He added that it had been "a tough, tough path" to the Olympics.
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