Eleanor Patterson
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Eleanor A. Patterson
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Eleanor Patterson at 2022 Belgrade World Athletics Indoor Championships
Personal information
Nationality Australian,
Born 22 May 1996 (age 26)
Leongatha, Victoria
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight 68.5 kg (151 lb)
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in) (2022)
Medal record
Women’s athletics
Representing Australia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Eugene High jump
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Belgrade High jump
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow High jump
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham High jump
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Donetsk High jump
Eleanor Patterson (born 22 May 1996) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. She is the reigning world champion, jumping an Australian record of 2.02m in Eugene, Oregon on 19 July 2022.[1] Having qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she jumped 1.95m in her Group and therefore qualified for the final. Here she managed 1.96m, 0.08m behind the eventual winner, Mariya Lasitskene, ROC.[2]
Patterson has a personal best of 2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in) for the event. She is the joint holder of the world youth best and the outright holder of the Oceanian junior record. She was the gold medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics.
Career
Born in Leongatha, Victoria,[3] Patterson began competing in the high jump as a child. She went to Little Athletics with her friend and fell in love with the sport.[4] Patterson competed in many local events.[5] She was runner-up at the national junior (under-20) championships in 2011, setting a personal best of 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) at the age of fourteen. She returned the following year to win that title and improved to 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) that November.[6]
In her first international competition she won the gold medal at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics, setting a personal best of 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) to win by a margin of six centimetres.[7] In December she broke records at the Australian Schools Championships, clearing a height of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) to equal the world youth best held by Charmaine Gale-Weavers (set in 1981) and Olga Turchak (set in 1984) and set a new Oceanian junior record. The 17-year-old had three attempts at the Australian senior record of 1.98 m (6 ft 5+3⁄4 in), but had three failures.[8]
Patterson was regularly over 1.90 m in the 2014 season, winning a fourth straight Australian junior title and taking her first senior national title at the Australian Athletics Championships. She also won at the Melbourne Track Classic meet with a jump of 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in).[6] She decided to miss the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in order to represent Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games instead. The move paid off as she jumped 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄4 in) to win the gold medal ahead of England’s Isobel Pooley. This made the 18-year-old the third youngest Australian Commonwealth Games champion ever.[9][10]
Patterson didn’t make the 2018 Commonwealth Games squad, took a year off the sport, before returning and qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.[11]
In 2020 she set a new Australian record, jumping 1.99m in New Zealand.[11]
In 2022 she set a new Oceania Indoor record, jumping 2.00 in Belgrade.[12]
Patterson is the fiancée of Italian high jumper Marco Fassinotti.[13]
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