Brooke Stratton

Brooke Stratton
nation	Australia
birthday	12th July 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Box Hill , Australia
size	166 cm
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	7.05 m
society	Nunawading Athletics Club
Trainer	Russell Stratton
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 6.77 m
last change: April 18, 2018

Brooke Stratton (born July 12, 1993 in Box Hill ) is an Australian long jumper and Oceania record holder with 7.05 m.

Athletic career

Brooke Stratton gained her first international experience at the Youth World Championships 2009 in Brixen , where she finished tenth in the final with 5.86 m. At the Oceanic Youth Championships 2010 in Sydney she won the silver medal in the triple jump. At the Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , she was sixth. Two years later, she finished seventh at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona with 6.42 m. In 2015 she qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she qualified with 6.64 m . Her personal best is 7.05 m, which she achieved at the Perth Track Classic 2016, beating Bronwyn Thompson's 14-year Australian record . A few days later she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Portland , where she was fifth. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro that year she came in seventh place .

At the 2017 World Championships in London , she came in sixth place with 6.67 m in the final . The following year, she won the Commonwealth Games in her native Gold Coast with 6.77 m, the silver medal behind the Canadian Christabel Nettey .

In 2014 as well as in 2016 and 2018, Stratton became the Australian champion in the long jump. She graduated from Deakin University with a degree in health sciences .

Personal best

• Long jump: 7.05 m, March 12, 2016 in Perth ( Oceania record )
  • Hall: 6.75 m, March 18, 2016 in Portland
• Triple jump: 13.34 m, March 15, 2012 in Sydney

Web links

• Brooke Stratton in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Brooke Stratton in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rio 2016: Brooke Stratton seventh in Olympic long jump final on debut