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| Born | June 9, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High Jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | High jump: 2.25 m (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Roman Anastasios (born 9 June 2002) is an Australian high jumper. He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships and won the silver medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships and the bronze medal at the 2025 Summer World University Games. [1]
Whilst studying fine arts at the University of Melbourne he won the Australian Unisport Athletics Championships in 2023 and 2024, after which he was named student athlete of the year at the Unisport Awards in 2024. [2] He cleared 2.21 metres to place third at the senior Australian Championships in Adelaide in April 2024. [3] He won the silver medal behind Yual Reath at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji, in June 2024 with a personal best jump of 2.25 metres. [4] [5]
Anastasios cleared 2.20 metres to win the inaugural Australian Short Track Championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025. [6] [7] He placed third behind Reath and Brandon Starc at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth in April 2025 with a clearence of 2.20 metres. [8]
He won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany in July 2025. [9] [10] He competed for Australia at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan in September 2025. [11] [12]
