Brandon Starc

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Brandon Starc
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Starc at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Born (1993-11-24) 24 November 1993 (age 32)
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight71 kg (157 lb)[2]
Relative(s)Mitchell Starc (brother)
Alyssa Healy (sister-in-law)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
High jump
Coached byAlex Stewart[3]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests2.36 m AR NR (2018)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Diamond League
First place 2018 Brussels High jump
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast High jump
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham High jump
Continental Cup
Silver medal – second place 2018 Ostrava High jump
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Singapore High jump

Brandon Starc (born 24 November 1993) is an Australian high jumper.[4] He holds the national and Oceania records, with a jump of 2.36 m achieved in 2018. A three-time Olympian, Starc has represented Australia at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games.[5][6][7]

Early life

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Starc attended Lidcombe Public School and started his athletics career at Tiger Wests Little Athletics Centre in Auburn before moving to Parramatta in later years.[8] He began to take his high jump achievements seriously and moved to Hills Sports High School. Starc also played cricket (like his elder brother Mitchell Starc) and football, but decided to concentrate on high jumping.

Achievements

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At the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010, Brandon won silver with a personal best of 2.19 m.[9]

Starc won his first National Senior Athletics Championships title in 2012 with 2.28 m, going on to qualify as a finalist at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona where he finished sixth, ahead of his senior debut in 2013 World Championships in Moscow. Starc has also competed in the finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Starc rose to prominence in the senior international track and field scene at 21 yrs of age, when he made to the high jump final at the 2015 World Championships in Bejing, finishing at twelfth position (the first Australian to contest a major men's high jump final since Tim Forsyth in 1997 at Athens). Moreover, Starc produced a personal best of 2.31 m at his first attempt at that height during the qualifying phase of the competition.[10]

In the men's high jump event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, he achieved a season best of 2.29 m in the qualifying stage to make the final.[11] He entered at 2.20 m in the final, clearing his second attempt, but did not progress from there.[12][13]

Brandon had a quiet 2017, not qualifying for the 2017 World Championships in Doha due to a shin injury. In 2018, he won his third Australian National title on 17 February with a leap of 2.28 m. He set a new personal best of 2.32 m in winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Queensland, on 11 April.[14] He competed in a couple of events in Japan in May, before a spectacular three-month campaign in Europe. He equalled his personal best on 2 July finishing third at the Gyulai István Memorial in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He achieved a new personal best of 2.33 m winning a Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on 18 August 2018.

He then set a third personal best for the year and equalled the Australian and Oceania records of 2.36 m (set by Tim Forsyth in 1997) in winning the prestigious annual Eberstadt Internationales Hochsprung meeting in Eberstadt on 26 August.[15] That is the third highest leap so far in 2018. He then won the 2018 Diamond League Final in Brussels, on 31 August, clearing 2.33 m.[16] Starc rounded off his 2018 European-summer campaign with a second place leap of 2.30 m at the Continental Cup in Ostrava on 8 September 2018.[7]

Starc qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics placing second in his group and qualifying for the finals. He placed fifth after jumping a height of 2.33 m, just 0.04 m short of the shared winners, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi.[6]

International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2012 World Junior Athletics Championships Barcelona, Spain 6th High jump 2.17
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 25th High jump 2.17
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 8th High jump 2.20 (Q)
2.21 (F)
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 12th High jump 2.31 (Q)
2.25 (F)
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15th High jump 2.29 (Q)
2.20 (F)
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 1st High jump 2.21 (Q)
2.32 (F)
2018 Internationales Hochsprung Eberstadt, Germany 1st High jump 2.36
2018 IAAF Diamond League Final Brussels, Belgium 1st High jump 2.33
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 5th High jump 2.35 (F)
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 8th High jump 2.25 m
2024 Olympic Games Paris, France 13th (q) High jump 2.24 m
2025 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 29th (q) High jump 2.16 m

Personal life

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Starc is the younger brother of Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc and brother-in-law of Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy. He is married to fellow athlete Laura Turner.[17] He collects sports shoes and is a keen photographer.[18]

References

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