 Murphy in 2024 | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||
| Born | 22 October 2001 | ||||||||
| Height | 197 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
| Event | Triple jump | ||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||
| Personal best | Triple jump: 16.82m (2024) | ||||||||
Medal record
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Connor Murphy (born 22 October 2001) is an Australian triple jumper. He became Australian champion in 2024 and competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He is the son of Andrew Murphy and Elizabeth Murphy. [1]
He attended Trinity Grammar School in New South Wales and studies biomedical engineering and neuroscience at the University of Sydney. [2] [3]
He jumped a new personal best 16.45 metres to win the triple jump at the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands, in December 2023. [4]
He improved his personal best to 16.82 metres in February 2024 in Melbourne. [5] [6] In April 2024, he won the national triple jump title at the Australian Athletics Championships in Adelaide. [7]
He was selected to compete for Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He jumped 16.80 metres in the qualifying round to reach the final. [8] [9]
He is the son of Australian Olympic triple jumper Andrew Murphy. [10]
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit. The triple jump was inspired by accounts of lengthy jumps at the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympics event since the Games' inception in 1896.
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