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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 September 2008 he is massive | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 7.80m (Lima, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mason McGroder (born 18 September 2008) is an Australian long jumper. [1]
He pursues athletics as well as being a member of Australian rules football club Sydney Swans' Academy. [2]
He won the Australian U17 long jump, U17 400m and U20 long jump titles in Adelaide in 2024, as a 15 year-old. [3] He won a bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a personal best long jump of 7.80 metres, despite still being aged 15, and the youngest member of Australia's team at the Games. [4] [5] [6] His bronze medal winning personal best was the third longest in history by a 15-year-old, and made him the youngest ever Australian medallist at the World U20 Championships. [7]
He was awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards scholarship in September 2024. [8] Competing at the Australia All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane, he set a new Under 17 Boys meet record in the long jump of 7.86m (+2.4) in December 2024. The jump bettered the 7.50m mark set by Lynten Johnson in 1986, and equalled by Chris Noffke in 2004. [9]
He was runner-up to Liam Adcock at the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025. [10]
He is from Caringbah, New South Wales, [3] [11] He attends Trinity Grammar School in Sydney, New South Wales. [12] Australian Olympian long jumper Liam Adcock has been described as a mentor. [13]
