Matthew Denny

Matthew Denny
nation	Australia
birthday	2nd June 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Toowoomba , Australia
size	195 cm
Weight	118 kg
job	college student
Career
discipline	Discus throw , hammer throw
Best performance	65.47 m, 74.88 m
society	Queensland Academy of Sport
Trainer	Graham Pitt
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 1 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 74.88 m  Universiade silver Gwangju 2015 62.58 m gold Naples 2019 65.27 m  Youth World Championships gold Donetsk 2013 67.54 m bronze Donetsk 2013 78.67 m
last change: April 22nd, 2020

Matthew Denny (born June 2, 1996 in Toowoomba ) is an Australian athlete who competes in both discus and hammer throw .

Athletic career

Matthew Denny gained his first international experience at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk , where he won the gold medal in the discus throw with 67.54 m and secured bronze in the hammer throw with 78.67 m. In 2014 he finished fourth with the discus at the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 62.73 m and was eliminated from the qualification with a hammer throw with 69.16 m. With the discus he took part in the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju , South Korea , where he won the silver medal behind the Belgian Philip Milanov with 62.58 m . In 2016 Denny qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was eliminated with 61.16 m in the discus qualification . In 2018 he took part for the first time in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Goald Coast , where he finished fourth in the discus throw with 62.53 m and won the silver medal behind Brit Nick Miller with the hammer with 74.88 m .

Denny has been concentrating exclusively on the discus throw since 2019 and took part in the Summer Universiade in Naples again, winning there with a width of 65.27 m. He qualified for the World Championships at the end of September in Doha , where he finished sixth with 65.43 m in the final .

Between 2015 and 2018, Denny was the Australian hammer throw champion every year as well as discus throwing in 2016, 2018 and 2019 . He is a student at Griffith University in Brisbane .

Top performances

• Discus throw: 65.47 m, February 28, 2020 in Wellington
• Hammer throw: 74.88 m, April 8, 2018 in Gold Coast

Web links

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