Brandon Starc

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Brandon Starc
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Starc in 2014
Personal information
Born (1993-11-24) 24 November 1993 (age 30)
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Height188 cm (6 ft 2 in) [1]
Weight71 kg (157 lb) [2]
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Athletics
Event High jump
ClubParramatta Athletics Club
Coached byAlex Stewart [3]
Achievements and titles
Personal bestHigh Jump: 2.36 m in Germany
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast High jump
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Birmingham High jump
Summer Youth Olympics
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Singapore High jump
Updated on 12 April 2018

Brandon Starc (born 24 November 1993) is an Australian high jumper. [4] 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. [3] [5]

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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 [6] of 2.19m. [7] 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. [8]

Early years

Starc attended Lidcombe Public School and started his athletics career at Parramatta Little Athletics. He began to take his high jump achievements seriously and moved to Hills Sports High School. Starc also played cricket (like his elder brother Mitchell Starc) and football, but decided to concentrate on high jumping.

At the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010, Brandon won silver with a personal best of 2.19m. In 2012, he was placed sixth at the world juniors ahead of his senior debut in 2013 at the world championships. [9]

Achievements

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. [10]

At the men's high jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro [11] 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. [12] [13]

Brandon had a quiet 2017, not qualifying for the 2017 World Championships due to a shin problem, [14] but 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. [15] 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. [16] 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. [17] 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. [9]

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2012 World Junior Athletics Championships Barcelona, Spain6th 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, Germany1st High jump 2.36
2018 IAAF Diamond League Final Brussels, Belgium1st High jump 2.33
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 5th High jump 2.35 (F)
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 8th High jump 2.25 m

Personal life

Starc is the younger brother of Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc and brother-in-law of Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy. He is married to fellow athlete Laura Turner. [18] He collects sports shoes and is a keen photographer. [19]

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References

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  16. ↑ "Brandon Starc equals 21-year-old Australian high jump record". 27 August 2018.
  17. ↑ Salvado, John (1 September 2018). "Starc jumping for joy after Brussels heroics". News.com.au.
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