Tom Gale (athlete)

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Tom Gale athletics
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom of England
EnglandEngland 
birthday 18th December 1998 (age 21)
place of birth Bath , UK
size 193 cm
Weight 74 kg
Career
discipline high jump
Best performance 2.33 m (hall); 2.30 m (open air)
society Team Bath
Trainer Diana Viles (until 2015)
Denis Doyle (since 2015)
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
U20 European Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo U23 European Championships
silver Gävle 2019 2.27 m
EAA logo U20 European Championships
bronze Grosseto 2017 2.28 m
last change: June 2nd, 2020

Tom Gale (born December 18, 1998 in Bath ) is a British athlete who specializes in the high jump .

Athletic career

Tom Gale gained his first international experience in 2016 when he finished ninth in the final of the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz with a skipped 2.18 m. The following year he won the bronze medal at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto with a height of 2.28 m and in 2018 he was eliminated from the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for England starting with 2.18 m in the qualification. In 2019 he took part in the U23 European Championships in Gävle , where he won the silver medal behind the Belarusian Maksim Nedassekau with a jump over 2.27 m .

In 2020, Gale became the British high jump indoor champion.

Personal best

  • Open air: 8 feet, 29 July 2017 in Bedford
  • Hall: 2.33 m, February 8, 2020 in Hustopeče

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