ERNEST JOHN “EJ” OBIENA clinched the men’s bronze medal on Monday at the World Athletics Championships—an announcement that he, indeed, has arrived and is now in the company of the elite in men’s pole vault. And he earned the podium finish alongside the great Armand Duplantis in Asian record fashion at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. AP After soaring to a new Asian record, Ernest John “EJ” Obiena is now in the company of the world’s elite—world champion and record holder Armand Duplantis of Sweden and Christopher Nilsen of the US. The 26-year-old Obiena cleared 5.94 meters not only to reset t…