Nicholas Hum

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Nicholas Hum
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2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait
Personal information
Born (1993-01-29) 29 January 1993 (age 31)
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Sport Track and field (T20)
ClubGlenhuntly Athletic Club
Coached byJohn Boas
Medal record
Men's para-athletics
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Men's Long Jump T20

Nicholas "Nic" Hum (born 29 January 1993) is an Australian Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability. He won the bronze medal in the men's long jump T20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [1] He has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics, his third Games. [2]

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Personal

Hum was born on 29 January 1993 and has an intellectual disability. [3] He works as a carpenter. [3] [4] He studied in Dandenong Emerson, graduated in 2011.

Athletics

Hum started athletics in 2010 and is a member of the Glenhuntly Athletic Club in Melbourne, Victoria. He is classified as a T20. His main event is the T20 Long Jump. In November 2010, he won the long jump and the 100m at the Australian AWD Junior Championships in Canberra, breaking the national records in both events. [3] Hum has competed at four IPC World Championships. At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, he finished 5th in the Men's Long Jump F20 with a jump of 6.55m (-0.4) . This set an Australian and Oceania record. [3] [5] At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, he finished 8th in the Men's Long Jump T20 with a jump of 6.19m(+1.0). At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, he finished 10th in the Men's Long Jump T20 with a jump of 6.31m(+2.0).

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he finished fifth in the Men's Long Jump T20 with a jump of 6.89. [6]

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, he finished fifth in the Men's Long Jump T20 with a jump of f 6.78m (-0.1). [7]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he won the bronze medal in the Men's Long Jump T20 with an Australian record 7.12m. [8] In the lead up to the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, Hum finished fourth in the Men's Long Jump T20 at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe with a jump of 6.78m. He competed in the men's long jump T20 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [9]

Hum with bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Hum bronze Tokyo MM edit.jpg
Hum with bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

In 2024, he is coached by John Boas.

Hum's other sporting passion is basketball and he represented Australia at Global Games, Italy 2011. [10]

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