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| Born | 11 July 1996 Wigan, England | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Wigan & District [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Scott Simpson | ||||||||||||||
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Harry Coppell (born 11 July 1996) is an English athlete specialising in the pole vault. [2] [3] He competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. [4]
Coppell became British champion when winning the pole vault event at the 2019 British Athletics Championships. He then successfully defended his title at the 2020 British Athletics Championships with a British record jump of 5.85 metres. [5]
At the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he represented Great Britain and placed 7th in the pole vault event. [4] Coppell represented England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he won a bronze medal. [6]
Coppell won a 3rd, 4th and 5th British title in 2021, 2022 and 2024 respectively. [7] [8]
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