Darcy Roper
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Full name | Darcy Roper | ||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | 31st March 1998 (age 22) | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 8.20 m | ||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Luke Donatini | ||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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2015 | U18 world championships |
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2. | Long jump | 8.01 m |
2016 | U20 world championships |
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3. | Long jump | 7.88 m |
2019 | Summer Universiade |
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3. | Long jump | 7.90 m |
World championships |
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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
- ↑ Final results in long jump
- ^ Entry in the Victorian Institute of Sport
- ^ World Challenge: Darcy Roper's long jumping into a new life . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , March 4, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
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SURNAME | Roper, Darcy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1998 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |