Kurtis Marschall
| File:WKBO4434 Polevault M final Marschall (53173093596).jpg Marschall in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 25 April 1997 |
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Track and field athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic finals | 5.60 m |
| World finals | 5.55 m |
| Personal best | 5.95 m |
Medal record | |
Kurtis Marschall (born 25 April 1997) is an Australian pole vaulter, bronze medalist at the 2023 and 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Early years
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]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 three attempts at his opening height of 5.55m.[4]
At the 2022 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 | edit source]| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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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 | |
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 6th | 5.85 m | ||
| 2025 | World Indoor Championships | Nanjing, China | 5th | 5.80 m | |
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | 5.95 m | |
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References
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External links
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- Kurtis Marschall at Australian Athletics
- Kurtis Marschall at Australian Athletics Historical Results
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- Kurtis Marschall at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)
- Kurtis Marschall at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Australian men pole vaulters
- Australian Athletics Championships winners
- Olympic athletes for Australia
- Olympic men pole vaulters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 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 gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- Happy Valley Football Club players
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportsmen from South Australia
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen