Hamish Kerr

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Hamish Kerr
Kerr at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat.
Personal information
Born17 August 1996 (1996-08-17) (age 29)
Dunedin, New Zealand
Height1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
High jump
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals1st (2024)
World finals1st (2025)
National finals1st (2015, 2017–2023, 2025)
Personal bests2.36 m AR (2024)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris High jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2025 Tokyo High jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Glasgow High jump
Silver medal – second place 2025 Nanjing High jump
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Belgrade High jump
Diamond League
First place 2025 High jump
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham High jump

Hamish Kerr (born 17 August 1996) is a New Zealand high jumper. He won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2025 World Championships. At the World Indoor Championships he won gold in 2024 having previously won bronze in 2022. He also won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Kerr is the co-holder of the Oceanian record and sole holder of the Oceanian indoor record.

Career

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In June 2019, Kerr equalled the national record with a jump of 2.30 m, winning the gold medal at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville.[2] He went on to compete at the Universiade in Naples, Italy, in July and then the World Athletics Championships in October in Doha, Qatar.

In February 2021, he improved the national record with 2.31 m at the Newtown Park Stadium, Wellington.[3] Later the same year at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he finished 10th in the men's high jump final with a clearance of 2.30 m.

Kerr competed at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, in March, where he surpassed the 39-year-old New Zealand indoor record of Roger Te Puni (of 2.16 m) with a bronze medal-winning jump of 2.31 m (tied with Gianmarco Tamberi). He won the Oceania Athletics Championships in June that year, jumping 2.24 m. In August, he claimed the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham with a jump of 2.25 m.

In February 2023 at the Banskobystricka latka in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, Kerr broke Tim Forsyth's Oceanian indoor record dating back to 1997 with a clearance of 2.34 m.[4]

On 10 August 2024, Kerr won the gold medal in the final of men's high jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, having cleared 2.34 m in a jump-off against Shelby McEwen – the two both had previously cleared 2.36 m in regulation.[5][6]

On 17 September 2025, Kerr won the high jump at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, equalling his personal best and national record 2.36 m.[citation needed]

In December 2025, Kerr was awarded the Lonsdale Cup by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.[7]

References

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