Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney
Eliza McCartney in London 2017
nation	New Zealand
birthday	11th December 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Auckland , New Zealand
size	179 cm
job	Student
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.75 m (hall); 4.94 m (open air)
society	North Harbor Bays Athletics
Trainer	Jeremy McColl
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × New Zealand Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 4.80 m  Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 4.70 m  Universiade silver Gwangju 2015 4.40 m  Junior World Championships bronze Eugene 2014 4.45 m New Zealand Championships gold Dunedin 2016 4.80 m gold Hamilton 2017 4.55 m
last change: April 9, 2020

Eliza McCartney (born December 11, 1996 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand athlete who specializes in the pole vault .

Athletic career

Eliza McCartney began pole vaulting at the age of 14 and took part in the 2013 Youth World Championships in Donetsk , where she finished fourth with 4.05 m. In 2014 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene , where she won the bronze medal with a new national record of 4.45 m. A year later, the student from Auckland University won the silver medal with 4.40 m at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea . In December she jumped 4.64 m in Auckland, setting a new junior world record and qualified for the Indoor World Championships in Portland , where she finished fifth with 4.70 m in the final. In the summer she qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she won the bronze medal behind the American Sandi Morris with 4.80 m . This makes her (as of 2018) the youngest medalist in the pole vault at the Olympic Games.

In 2017, McCartney improved her record to 4.82 m and became the sole Oceania record holder. She qualified for the World Championships in London , where she finished ninth with 4.55 m in the final .

In 2018 she qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where she improved her indoor record to 4.75 m and thus finished fourth. She then took part for the first time in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and won the silver medal behind the Canadian Alysha Newman with 4.70 m .

In 2016 and 2017 McCartney was New Zealand champion in pole vault.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.70 m, April 2, 2011 in Hamilton
• Pole vault: 4.94 m, July 17, 2018 in Jockgrim ( Oceania record )
  • Pole vault (hall): 4.75 m, March 3, 2018 in Birmingham ( New Zealand record )

Web links

Commons : Eliza McCartney  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eliza McCartney in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile on NZOC
• Profile on Athletics New Zealand
• Steve Landells: That moment when ... McCartney realized she had an exciting future in pole vault ( English ) IAAF. May 13, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World record ratification by the IAAF
2. ↑ James Sullivan: McCartney lives teenage dream in Rio with brilliant bronze medal ( English ) IAAF. August 20, 2016. Accessed March 16, 2018.