Benn Harradine

Benn Harradine
nation	Australia
birthday	14th October 1982 (age 37)
place of birth	Newcastle , Australia
size	198 cm
Weight	115 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	68.20 m (May 10, 2013 in Townsville )
society	Hunter Track and Field Club
Trainer	Ken Harradine
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games gold New Delhi 2010 65.45 m
last change: August 12, 2018

Benn Harradine (born October 14, 1982 in Newcastle , New South Wales ) is a former Australian discus thrower and current holder of the Oceania record in this discipline (as of August 2018).

Athletic career

Benn Harradine gained his first international experience at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne , where he finished eighth with 58.87 m. Two years later he qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where he was eliminated with 58.55 m in the qualification , as well as at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with 61.74 m. In 2010 Harradine was second at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split and won the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi with 65.45 m ahead of Indian Vikas Gowda and Carl Myerscough from England. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu he was fifth with 64.77 m and at the 2012 Olympic Games in London he threw 63.59 m in the final , finishing ninth.

On May 10, 2013, Harradine set his fourth Oceania record in Townsville with 68.20 m. He qualified again for the World Championships in Moscow , where he did not qualify for the final with 59.68 m. In 2014 he took part again in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , Scotland , where he finished fourth with 61.91 m. At the World Championships in Beijing in 2015 he reached the final and was tenth there with 62.05 m. In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the third time . There he could not qualify for the final of the top twelve again with 60.85 m .

In 2017 he took part in a world championship in London for the last time and failed there with 60.95 m in qualification . In 2018 he took part in his fourth Commonwealth Games in his native Gold Coast . There he finished sixth in the final with 59.92 m. He then announced his resignation and hopes to be a coach at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 .

Harradine was the Australian discus thrower in 2007 and 2008 and between 2010 and 2012 and 2014. He is a sports graduate from the University of Newcastle . He is the sixth Native to date to represent Australia in an athletics event at the Olympics and the first in a throwing event.

Web links

• Benn Harradine in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Benn Harradine in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Benn Harradine in the database of Athletics Australia (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Australia's Harradine throws Area Discus record and world-lead with 68.20m . May 11th, 2013
2. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Benn Harradine before the end of his career  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018