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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 June 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.15m (Gold Coast, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Liam Adcock (born 21 June 1996) is an Australian long jumper. He has won the Australian national title and in 2024 became Oceania champion. [1]
He received New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship. [2]
He competed for Australia at the 2017 World University Games and was second in consecutive years at the Australian Athletics Championships, in 2017 and 2018. However, a succession of injuries prevented him from competing consistently again until 2022. [3]
He won the 2023 Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane with a long jump of 8.06 metres. [4] He made a personal best jump of 8.15 metres in Gold Coast in April 2023. [5] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, where he jumped 7.99 metres to miss a spot in the final by one centimetre. [6] [7]
He won gold at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji with a jump of 8.05 metres. [8] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [9] [10]
He earned a Bachelor degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Queensland in 2019. He worked as a tax consultant prior to his return to athletics. In 2023, he moved to Sydney. He is a member of Sydney University Athletics Club. [11] [12] [3]
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