Kurtis Marschall
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 April 1997 Adelaide, SA, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 5.60m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World finals | 5.55 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 5.95m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kurtis Marschall (born 25 April 1997) is an Australian pole vaulter, bronze medallist at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Early years[edit]
Marschall was born on 25 April 1997 in North Adelaide, South Australia.[1]
In 2008, as an 11-year-old, Marschall was inspired by Steve Hooker's gold medal win at the Olympic Games in Beijing. A year later he attended a ‘come-and-try' day in Adelaide where he jumped two metres.[2]
Marschall started training with Alan Launder and 4 years later was clearing five metres. Launder died in 2014 and Kym Simons coached him for the next few years. Not long after, Marschall made his international debut at the World U20 Championships.[2]
Achievements[edit]
in 2016 in Germany, ahead of his second World U20 Championships appearance, Marschall cleared 5.70 m, locking up Olympic qualification. It was the highest vault by a junior in the world for three years. He then competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's pole vault.[3] He missed qualifying for the Olympic pole vault final on countback.[2]
In 2017 he was 11th in the final at the World Championships. At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games the following year he claimed gold for Australia. Marschall was now a 5.86m vaulter and top-5 in the Diamond Leagues. [2]
He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In his men's pole vault group he came 2nd with a leap of 5.75m which qualified him for the final. In the final he did not register a clearance after dislodging the bar with all 3 attempts at his opening height of 5.55m.[4]
At the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games he claimed gold for Australia with a winning jump of 5.70 metres.
His personal best in the event is 5.95 metres, set in Sotteville, France on 7 July 2023 and equalled in the final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on 26 August 2023.
International competitions[edit]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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Representing  Australia
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| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 10th (q) | 5.00 m | |
| 2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2nd | 5.55 m | |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 15th (q) | 5.60 m | ||
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 7th | 5.65 m | |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 4th | 5.80 m | |
| Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 1st | 5.70 m | ||
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 5th (q) | 5.75 m1 | |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 7th | 5.75 m | |
| World Championships | Eugene, United States | 24th (q) | 5.50 m | ||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | 5.95 m | |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 5th | 5.75 m | |
1No mark in the final
References[edit]
- ^ "Kurtis Marschall". olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Kurtis Marschall". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Kurtis Marschall". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ Salvado, John (3 August 2021). "Marschall last in Olympic pole vault final". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
External links[edit]
- Kurtis Marschall at World Athletics
- Kurtis Marschall at Diamond League
- Kurtis Marschall at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Kurtis Marschall at Olympics.com
- Kurtis Marschall at Olympedia
- Kurtis Marschall at the Australian Olympic Committee
Commonwealth Games champions in men's pole vault | |
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Australian male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes from Adelaide
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Happy Valley Football Club players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Australian people
- Sportsmen from South Australia
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Australian Athletics Championships winners