Darcy Roper

Darcy Roper
Full name	Darcy Roper
nation	Australia
birthday	31st March 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Australia
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.20 m
Trainer	Luke Donatini
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Universiade bronze Naples 2019 Long jump  Junior World Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 Long jump  Youth World Championships silver Cali 2015 Long jump
last change: February 8, 2020

Darcy Roper (born March 31, 1998 ) is an Australian athlete who specializes in the long jump .

Athletic career

Darcy Roper has been competing in national competitions since 2012. At the beginning of his career he won several Australian youth titles, at that time in addition to the long jump, also in the short sprint courses. In 2015, he first appeared in the adult division at the Australian Championships in March. With 7.91 m he finished second and then traveled as one of the top favorites to the U18 World Championships in Cali. In his qualifying round, he jumped the greatest distance and was able to jump the eight-meter mark for the first time in the final. Nevertheless, this was not enough for the victory, since he Cuban Maykel Massó jumped four centimeters further. His 8.01 m meant not only the runner-up world title but also a new Australian youth record.

In 2016 he competed at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz. In the final he jumped 7.88 m and won the bronze medal, behind Massó and the Greek Miltiadis Tendoglou . Even in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, he did not come close to the eight-meter mark in national competitions.

In the spring of 2019 he jumped over 8 meters several times and set up a new record of 8.13 m at a meeting in Perth. In July he joined the Universiade in Naples as a student at the University of Queensland . There he stayed under 8 meters, but won the bronze medal with 7.90 m. At the World Championships in Doha, he failed with 7.82 m in the qualification and finished 15th. In January 2020, he jumped 8.20 m in a competition in Canberra.

Roper trains at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne .

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Australia
2015	U18 world championships	Cali	2.	Long jump	8.01 m
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	3.	Long jump	7.88 m
2019	Summer Universiade	Naples	3.	Long jump	7.90 m
	World championships	Doha	15th	Long jump	7.82 m

Personal best

open air

• Long jump: 8.20 m, January 25, 2020, Canberra

Others

At the age of 16, Roper moved out of home due to domestic difficulties and then lived in the boarding school of Boys College in Brisbane . During the holidays he lived with friends. After being runner-up in 2015 in Cali, he was sponsored by Asics and graduated from school that same year. Since then he has been a student and works on the side in an Asics sports shop.

Web links

• Darcy Roper in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final results in long jump
2. ^ Entry in the Victorian Institute of Sport
3. ^ World Challenge: Darcy Roper's long jumping into a new life . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , March 4, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2020.