Henry Frayne (born 14 April 1990) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in triple jump and long jump. He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 14th in qualifying with a distance of 7.93m, and did not qualify for the final.[4]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 14 April 1990 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia[1] |
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[2] |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb)[3] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Triple Jump, Long Jump |
| Club | Old Melburnians Athletic Club |
| Team | Qld Academy of Sport |
| Coached by | Gary Bourne |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics |
| World finals | 2011 World Championships |
Frayne trains under Gary Bourne who also coaches or has coached Mitchell Watt, Chris Noffke, Jai Taurima and Bronwyn Thompson.
Early years
editFrayne was South Australian born and raised but in 2007, as a 16-year-old, he followed his coach, Vasily Grishchenkov, and moved to Melbourne. He was already a talented triple jumper in his early teens.
Frayne raised the national junior triple jump record three times in 2008 and 2009, and was then placed fifth at the 2008 World Junior Championships. In 2010, he moved to Brisbane under coach Gary Bourne, his current coach. In 2011, he was placed ninth in the triple jump at the IAAF World Championships and his first 17-metre jump.
Achievements
editFrayne won the silver medal in the long jump event at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.[5] Frayne's personal best at long jump is 8.34 m (2018) and at triple jump 17.23 m (2012).[5] He competed at the 2011 World Championships where he placed 9th in the triple jump final.[5] Frayne competed at the 2012 London Olympics in both the long jump and triple jump, and qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the long jump, finishing 7th in the final. He jumped a personal best 8.34 m to qualify for the final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, where he finished with the silver medal behind world champion Luvo Manyonga.
He is a nephew of 1984 Olympian Bruce Frayne.[1]
Frayne completed a Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University.[6]
Competition record
edit| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Representing  Australia
| |||||
| 2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 5th | Triple jump | 16.29 m (-0.8 m/s) |
| 2009 | Universiade | Belgrade, Serbia | 12th | Triple jump | 16.11 m |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 9th | Triple jump | 16.78 m |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 2nd | Long jump | 8.23 m |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 9th | Long jump | 7.85 m | |
| 17th (q) | Triple jump | 16.40 m | |||
| 2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 8th (q) | Long jump | 7.85 m[7] |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7th | Long jump | 8.06 m |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 14th (q) | Long jump | 7.88 m |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 2nd | Long jump | 8.33 m |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 13th (q) | Long jump | 7.86 m |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 14th (q) | Long jump | 7.93 m |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 12th | Long jump | 7.80 m |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 20th (q) | Long jump | 7.78 m |
References
edit- ^ a b "Athletics Australia – Frayne, Henry". Athletics.com.au. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Henry Frayne". commonwealthgames.com.au. 2018 Commonwealth Games. 2 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Henry Frayne". gc2018.com. 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Athletics FRAYNE Henry - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Frayne Henry Biography". Iaaf.org. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Henry Frayne to compete in long and triple jumps events yet again at the Olympics". Deakin Life. Deakin University. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
- ^ No mark in the final