Henry Frayne (athlete)

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Henry Frayne
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1990-04-14) 14 April 1990 (age 34)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia [1]
Height188 cm (6 ft 2 in) [2]
Weight82 kg (181 lb) [3]
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Triple Jump, Long Jump
Club Old Melburnians Athletic Club
Team Qld Academy of Sport
Coached byGary Bourne
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics
World finals 2011 World Championships
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 Istanbul Long jump
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Long jump
Oceania Athletics Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Suva Long jump

Henry Frayne (born 14 April 1990) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in triple jump and long jump. He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 14th in qualifying with a distance of 7.93m, and did not qualify for the final. [4]

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Frayne trains under Gary Bourne who also coaches or has coached Mitchell Watt, Chris Noffke, Jai Taurima and Bronwyn Thompson.

Early years

Frayne was South Australian born and raised but in 2007, as a 16-year-old, he followed his coach, Vasily Grishchenkov, and moved to Melbourne. He was already a talented triple jumper in his early teens.

Frayne raised the national junior triple jump record three times in 2008 and 2009, and was then placed fifth at the 2008 World Junior Championships. In 2010, he moved to Brisbane under coach Gary Bourne, his current coach. In 2011, he was placed ninth in the triple jump at the IAAF World Championships and his first 17-metre jump.

Achievements

Frayne won the silver medal in the long jump event at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. [5] Frayne's personal best at long jump is 8.34 m (2018) and at triple jump 17.23 m (2012). [5] He competed at the 2011 World Championships where he placed 9th in the triple jump final. [5] Frayne competed at the 2012 London Olympics in both the long jump and triple jump, and qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the long jump, finishing 7th in the final. He jumped a personal best 8.34 m to qualify for the final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, where he finished with the silver medal behind world champion Luvo Manyonga.

He is a nephew of 1984 Olympian Bruce Frayne. [1]

Frayne completed a Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University. [6]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 5thTriple jump 16.29 m (-0.8 m/s)
2009 Universiade Belgrade, Serbia 12thTriple jump 16.11 m
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 9thTriple jump 16.78 m
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 2ndLong jump 8.23 m
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom9thLong jump 7.85 m
17th (q)Triple jump 16.40 m
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, United Kingdom 8th (q)Long jump 7.85 m [7]
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7thLong jump 8.06 m
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 14th (q)Long jump 7.88 m
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 2ndLong jump 8.33 m
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 13th (q)Long jump 7.86 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 14th (q)Long jump 7.93 m
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 12thLong jump 7.80 m
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 20th (q)Long jump 7.78 m

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  7. No mark in the final