Brandon Starc
Brandon Starc (born 24 November 1993) is an Australian high jumper. Starc currently trains in Sydney, Australia, under the guidance of his coach Alex Stewart. As a national representative and high achieving athlete, Starc is supported and represented through the New South Wales and Australian Institutes of Sport.
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| Born | 24 November 1993 Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Parramatta Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Alex Stewart | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | High Jump: 2.36 m in Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 12 April 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
As a 16 year old he won a silver medal at the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore with a +9 cm personal best of 2.19m. Starc won his first National Senior Athletics Championships title in 2012 with 2.28m, going on to qualify as a finalist at the 2012 World Junior Athletics Championships, Starc has also competed in the finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the 2015 World Athletics Championships, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Starc qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics placing second in his Group and qualifying for the Olympic final. He placed 5th after jumping a height of 2.33m, just 0.04m short of the shared winners, Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy.