on Tuesday at the Paris par Olympics American athlete Ezra fretch achieved a stunning golden double winning the men's high jump with a record-breaking leap of 1.94 M just shy of his own world record this Victory followed his thrilling gold in the men's 100 meter t63 sprint the day before where the 19-year-old came from behind to Edge out Denmark's Daniel Wagner by just 0.02 seconds in a photo finish born with congenital limb differences fretch ran on his first blades at the age of four and quickly took to soccer basketball and track according to olympics.com at age 11 inspired by watching the Rio 2016 par Olympics he boldly promised his friends that he would compete in the Tokyo 2020 games everyone thought I was crazy he shared with Sports Illustrated statistically it was improbable an 11-year-old claiming he'll make the games in 4 years seemed absurd true to his word fresh qualified for Tokyo though he finished fifth in the t63 high jump narrowly missing out on a medal reflecting on the experience he told SI it was one of the most heartbreaking moments of my life failing in private is hard but failing on the world stage for everyone to see is much harder