Mitchell Watt (athlete)
Mitchell Watts 
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| birthday | 25th March 1988 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||
| size | 1.84 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | |||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 8.54 m | |||||||||||||||
| society | QE2 Track Club | |||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Gary Bourne | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | August 31, 2016 | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: November 30, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
Mitchell Watt (born March 25, 1988 in Bendigo ) is an Australian long jumper . His best distance is 8.54 m, erected on July 29, 2011 in Stockholm . At a height of 1.84 m, his competition weight is 83 kg.
Life
Mitchell Watt studies business law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane . His club is the QE2 Track Club . On August 31, 2016, he announced his retirement due to Achilles tendon problems .
successes
After he did not five years more with athletics had occupied (his weitester jump dated with 6.98 m in 2002) he started with his coach Gary Bourne to prepare for the Australian long jump season of 2008. With 7.72 m he was third in the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Tour in Melbourne . At the subsequent Australian Championships he was eighth with 7.33 m. His best performance in 2008 was 7.97 m, jumping in Gold Coast .
In 2009, Mitchell Watt advanced to the top of the world. First he jumped 8.04 m in January in the Gold Coast, then he finished second at the IAAF World Athletics Tour in Melbourne with 8.11 m behind Fabrice Lapierre . At the Australian Championships in 2009 he was also second behind Fabrice Lapierre with 8.10 m. He also took part in the 100-meter run and had a time of 10.37 s that would have been enough for a World Championship qualification. At the Grand Prix in Madrid in July 2009 (4th place) he increased his best performance to 8.34 m. On July 20, 2009, he jumped 8.43 m in Rethymno with a legal 2.0 m / s tailwind. This was the world's fifth longest jump in 2009 and the second longest ever jumped by an Australian. The Australian record since 2000 was 8.49m and was held by Jai Taurima . He confirmed his good form at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with the bronze medal after a jump of 8.37 m. He also came third at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha (with 8.05 m).
He won the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu with 8.33 m behind four-time world champion Dwight Phillips . At his first Olympic Games, the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he also received the silver medal for his 8.16 m.
Top performances
He won the Australian Long Jump Championship for the first time in 2011 with a new stadium record of 8.44 m in the Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne. His first jump of 8.17 m would have secured him the Australian Championship. He jumped the 8.44 m in the last attempt. He jumped 8.44 m again when he won the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix , a station of the Diamond League , in the Shanghai Stadium on May 15, 2011. He jumped at the DN Galan in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium on July 29, 2011 as part of the Diamond League in his victory with 8.54 m a new Australian record. With this distance he also achieved a world best of the year .
He improved his 100-meter best on June 18, 2001 in Gold Coast to 10.31 s.
Web links
- Mitchell Watt in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Mitchell Watt in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Interview in Spikes Magazine ( Memento from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Watt a career ( memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article by David Culbert from September 1, 2016
- ↑ Watt leaps 8.44m, Pearson scores triple victory as curtain falls on Melbourne's Olympic Park . Article from April 17, 2011 on iaaf.org (English)
- ↑ Long jump result from DN Galan 2011 (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Watt, Mitchell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Watt, Mitch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian long jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bendigo |