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Henry Frayne
Australian track and field athlete, who studies Law

Henry Frayne

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Australian track and field athlete, who studies Law
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Place of birth
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Age
34 years
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187 cm
Education
Deakin University
Victoria, Australia
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Biography

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.

Frayne trains under Gary Bourne who also coaches or has coached Mitchell Watt, Chris Noffke, Jai Taurima and Bronwyn Thompson.

Early years

Frayne 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

Frayne won the silver medal in the long jump event at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Frayne's personal best at long jump is 8.34 m (2018) and at triple jump 17.23 m (2012). He competed at the 2011 World Championships where he placed 9th in the triple jump final. 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.

Frayne completed a Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University.

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Australia
2008World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland5thTriple jump16.29 m
2009UniversiadeBelgrade, Serbia12thTriple jump16.11 m
2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea9thTriple jump16.78 m
2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey2ndLong jump8.23 m
Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom9thLong jump7.85 m
17th (q)Triple jump16.40 m
2014Commonwealth GamesGlasgow, United Kingdom8th (q)Long jump7.85 m
2016Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil7thLong jump8.06 m
2017World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom14th (q)Long jump7.88 m
2018Commonwealth GamesGold Coast, Australia2ndLong jump8.33 m
2019World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar13th (q)Long jump7.86 m
2021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan14th (q)Long jump7.93 m
2022World ChampionshipsEugene, United States12thLong jump7.80 m
2023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary20th (q)Long jump7.78 m
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