EVENT: Athletics: Men's High Jump
World Indoor high jump champion Hamish Kerr heads to his second Olympic Games full of confidence and belief after enjoying an outstanding 2024 campaign so far.
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EVENT: Athletics: Men's High Jump
World Indoor high jump champion Hamish Kerr heads to his second Olympic Games full of confidence and belief after enjoying an outstanding 2024 campaign so far.
Raised in Auckland but now based in Christchurch, Hamish set a national high jump record of 2.31m in 2021 before later that year finishing tenth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
His career continued to improve in 2022, when becoming the first Kiwi to win a global high jump medal with bronze at the World Indoor Championships before later that year winning gold at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
In March 2024, he achieved the greatest accomplishment of his career so far when setting a national record and world leading mark of 2.36m to take an exhilarating gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Coached by James Sandilands in his spare time Hamish is a keen golfer.
