Simon Arkell

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Simon Arkell
Personal information
Born1 July 1966 (1966-07) (age 59)
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]

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Biography

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 Ryght, an early stage AI software company focused on the biopharma industry, and he is a seed stage investor and board member. [2]

Arkell twice won the British AAA Championships title in the pole vault event at the 1988 AAA Championships [3] and the 1993 AAA Championships. [4]

Achievements

YearTournament [2] VenueResultExtra
1986 Commonwealth Games Edinburgh, Scotland7th4.75 m
1987 World Student Games Zagreb, Yugoslavia9th5.40 m
1988British 1988 AAA Championships Birmingham, England1st5.10 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, England7th5.40 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 1993 AAA Championships Birmingham, England1st5.60 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—

References

  1. 1 2 3 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Simon Arkell". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Simon Arkell". Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "AAA Championships (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
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