Henry Frayne

Henry Frayne
Full name	Henry Max Frayne
nation	Australia
birthday	14th April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Adelaide , Australia
size	188 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , triple jump
Best performance	8.34 m, 17.23 m
society	Old Melburnians Athletic Club
Trainer	Gary Bourne
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 8.33 m  Indoor world championships silver Istanbul 2012 8.23 m
last change: July 31, 2018

Henry Max Frayne (born April 14, 1990 in Adelaide ) is an Australian athlete . His disciplines are the triple jump and the long jump .

Life

Henry Frayne is the nephew of the Australian 200- and 400-meter champion and Olympic participant Bruce Frayne . Henry Frayne's father, Geoff Frayne , was a participant in Australian championships in three and long jump. Henry Frayne lived in Adelaide until he was 16 years old and then moved to Melbourne because there were better athletics training opportunities there.

Henry Frayne has been training at the QAS Jumps Center in Brisbane since 2009 . His former coach was Vasily Grishchenkov , in Brisbane he is trained by Gary Bourne. Gary Bourne was also the coach of the Australian long jump record holder Mitchell Watt . Henry Frayne's club is the Old Melbournians Athletic Club .

In 2012 he graduated from Deakin University with a Bachelor of Commerce , and then studied law at the University of Queensland .

Athletic career

In addition to athletics, Henry Frayne was active in Australian football and brought it up to appearances for junior national teams from South Australia .

Frayne gained his first international experience in athletics at the 2007 Youth World Championships in Ostrava , where he was eliminated from the qualification with 14.85 m in a triple jump. In 2008 he reached the final at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz in a triple jump and was fifth there with 16.29 m. At the Summer Universiade 2009 in Belgrade , he finished twelfth with 16.11 m; in the qualification there he had set a new Australian U20 record with 16.62 m. In 2011 he qualified for the World Championships in Daegu , where he finished ninth with 16.78 m. His greatest success in the long jump is the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul with the same width of 8.23 ​​m as the winner Mauro Vinícius da Silva and a new oceanic indoor record. During the outdoor season he qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated in the triple jump with 16.40 m in the qualification and in the long jump in the final with 7.85 m finished ninth.

In 2014 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for the first time and finished last in the final without a valid attempt. Two years later he took part again in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was there seventh with 8.07 m in the final . In 2017 he qualified for the World Championships in London, where he was eliminated from the qualification with 7.88 m . At the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast , he improved his long jump to 8.34 m and then finished second with 8.33 m behind the South African Luvo Manyonga in the final.

In 2010 Frayne became the Australian triple jump champion.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.34 m (+1.1 m / s), April 10, 2018 in Gold Coast
  • Long jump (hall): 8.23 ​​m, March 10, 2012 in Istanbul
• Triple jump: 17.23 m (+0.6 m / s), March 2, 2012 in Melbourne

Web links

• Henry Frayne in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Henry Frayne in the database of Athletics Australia (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henry Frayne to compete in long and triple jumps events yet again at the Olympics . Article from August 3, 2016 in the Deakin University blog
2. ↑ Henry Frayne on the Commonwealth Games 2018 website
3. ↑ Final of the triple jump at the 2011 World Athletics Championships (English)