Simon Arkell

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Simon Arkell
Personal information
Born1 July 1966 (1966-07) (age 57)
Maidenhead, England [1]
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event Pole vault
ClubSPOC
Achievements and titles
Personal best5.80 m (1996) [1]

Simon Graham Arkell (born 1 July 1966) is an Olympic pole vaulter from Australia, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. [1] During his career he was Commonwealth Champion, NCAA All-American (5 times), WAC Conference Champion (7 times) and broke 9 Australian and 4 Commonwealth records. He was also Australian (3) and British (2) Champion, was 1993 Australian Athlete of the Year and is in the Athletics Hall of Fame for the State of South Australia and the University of New Mexico, USA. After his athletic career Arkell went on to co-found Versifi Technologies, Predixion Software and Deep Lens, an oncology-focused clinical trial matching software company that uses artificial intelligence to match cancer patient to clinical trials. Deep Lens was backed by venture capital firms Northpond Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Rev1 and Tamarind Hill Fund and was acquired in May 2022 by Paradigm Health in an all-cash deal. He is co-founder and CEO of Synthetica Bio, an early stage AI software company focused on the biopharma industry and he is a seed stage investor and board member. [2]

Achievements

YearTournament [2] VenueResultExtra
1986 Commonwealth Games Edinburgh, United Kingdom7th4.75 m
1987 World Student Games Zagreb, Yugoslavia9th5.40 m
1988 British AAA Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom1st5.10 m
1989 Australian Championships Brisbane, Australia1st5.40 m
IAAF World Cup Barcelona, Spain5th5.45 m
World Student Games Duisburg, West Germany4th5.40 m
1990 IAAF Grand Prix Aarhus, Denmark2nd5.61 m NR
Commonwealth Games Auckland, New Zealand1st5.35 m
1991 World Student Games Sheffield, United Kingdom7th5.40 m
Australian Domestic Perth, Australia1st5.70 m CR
World Championships Tokyo, Japan17th5.40 m
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain22nd5.30 m
1993 Australian Grand Prix Adelaide, Australia1st5.72 m NR
World Indoor Championships Toronto, Canada17th5.30 m
British AAA Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom1st5.60 m
World Championships Stuttgart, Germany22nd5.45 m
1995 Australian Grand Prix Adelaide, Australia1st5.73 m NR
World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden20th5.40 m
1996 Australian Grand Prix Perth, Australia1st5.75 m NR
IAAF Grand Prix Adelaide, Australia1st5.80 m NR
Olympic Games Atlanta, United StatesNHC

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Simon Arkell". Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014.