Brandon Starc

Brandon Starc (born 24 November 1993) is an Australian high jumper.[4] As a 16 year old he won a silver medal at the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore with a +9cm personal best[5] of 2.19m.[6] Brandon won his first National Senior Athletics Championships title in 2012 with 2.28m, and was a finalist at the 2012 World Junior Athletics Championships, 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 currently trains in Sydney, Australia, under the tutelage of his coach Alex Stewart[3][7]

Brandon Starc
Starc in 2014
Personal information
Born (1993-11-24) 24 November 1993
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Height188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight71 kg (157 lb)[2]
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportAthletics
Event(s)High jump
ClubParramatta Athletics Club
Coached byAlex Stewart[3]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)High jump: 2.36 (2018)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastHigh jump
Summer Youth Olympics
2010 SingaporeHigh jump
Updated on 12 April 2018.

Biography

Starc first rose to prominence in the senior international track and field scene when, at 21 yrs of age, he made the high jump final at the 2015 IAAF World Championships, coming a creditable twelfth (the first Australian to contest a major men's high jump final since Tim Forsyth in 1997 at Athens). Moreover, Starc confidently produced a personal best of 2.31 m at his first attempt at that height during the qualifying phase of the competition.[8]

At the men's high jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro[9] he achieved a season best of 2.29m in the qualifying stage to make the final. He entered at 2.20m in the final, clearing his second attempt, but did not progress from there.[10][11]

Brandon had a quiet 2017, not qualifying for the 2017 World Championships due to a shin problem,[12] but has scaled new heights in 2018. He won his third Australian National title on 17 February with a leap of 2.28m. He set a new personal best of 2.32m in winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Qld, Australia on 11 April.[13] He competed in a couple of events in Japan in May, before a spectacular three month campaign in Europe. He equalled his personal best on 2 July finishing third at the Gyulai István Memorial in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He achieved a new personal best of 2.33m winning a Diamond League meeting in Birmingham (GBR) on 18 August 2018. He then set a third personal best for the year and equalled the Australian and Oceania area high jump records of 2.36m (set by Tim Forsyth in 1997) in winning the prestigious annual Eberstadt Internationales Hochsprung (high jump only) meeting in Eberstadt, Germany on 26 August.[14] That is the third highest leap so far in 2018 (as on 1 September). He then won the IAAF Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium, on 31 August, clearing 2.33m.[15] Starc rounded off his 2018 European-summer campaign with a second place leap of 2.30m representing Asia-Pacific in the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava on 8 September 2018.


International competitions
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2012 World Junior Athletics Championships Barcelona, Spain 6th High jump 2.17
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 25th High jump 2.17
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 8th High jump 2.20 (Q)
2.21 (F)
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 12th High jump 2.31 (Q)
2.25 (F)
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15th High jump 2.29 (Q)
2.20 (F)
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 1st High jump 2.21 (Q)
2.32 (F)
2018 Internationales Hochsprung Eberstadt, Germany 1st High jump 2.36
2018 IAAF Diamond League Final Brussels, Belgium 1st High jump 2.33

Personal life

Starc is the younger brother of Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc and brother-in-law of Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy.[16] He collects sports shoes and is a keen photographer.[17]

References
  1. Azal Khan and Lawrence Machado (2 August 2016). "Hills Sports High Seven Hills' Brandon Starc and Chloe Logarzo become Olympians". The Daily Telegraph. News Corp. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. "Brandon Starc". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  3. Tuxworth, Jon (18 December 2015). "High jumper Brandon Starc brimming with confidence as he targets Olympic glory". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. "Brandon Starc". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://athletics.com.au/Profiles/Athlete-Profiles/Athlete-Profile-Brandon-Starc
  7. https://www.golfaustralia.com.au/news/brandon-starc-421759
  8. "World Athletics Championships: Australia's Brandon Starc qualifies for Beijing high jump final". ABC News Australia. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  9. "Exciting track and field team announced for Rio Olympic Games". Australian Olympic Committee. 3 August 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  10. "Athletics: Men's High Jump Final". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  11. "Brandon Starc of Australia comes last in high jump final at Rio Olympics". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  12. http://nswathletics.org.au/News/starc-and-armstrong-close-year-in-top-form-ahead-of-gc2018
  13. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/athletics/starc-claims-australia-s-first-men-s-high-jump-games-gold-since-1994-20180411-p4z937.html
  14. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/athletics/brandon-starc-equals-21-year-old-australian-high-jump-record-20180827-p5000q.html
  15. https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/diamond-league-aussie-high-jumper-brandon-starc-picks-up-big-cheque-for-impressive-win-in-brussels/news-story/2347f91f1af0555e6e10f60e4a5bbc45
  16. "PB and finals berth for high jumper Starc". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  17. https://www.brandonstarc.com/photography/
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