Peter Burge

Peter Burge ( Peter Scott Burge ; born July 3, 1974 in Townsville ) is a former Australian long jumper .

He began his career as a triple jumper and was Australian champion in this discipline in 1993. In 1998 he switched to the long jump and immediately won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur that season . The following year he had to pause because of a chronic injury to the groin . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was sixth and fourth at the 2001 World Indoor Athletics Championships . In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he became national champion in long jump. In 2003 he ended his sporting career. Peter Burge is 1.87 m tall and weighed 80 kg at competition times. He started for the Melbourne Track Club.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.30 m, March 2, 2000, Melbourne
  • Hall: 8.11 m, March 4, 2001, Sindelfingen
• Triple jump: 16.19 m, September 19, 1992, Seoul

Web links

• Peter Burge in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Peter Burge in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
• Peter Burge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Brief portrait ( Memento of December 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2000
• Peter Burge on sporting-heroes.net