PATTERSON Eleanor

Australia

Athletics

Date of Birth: 22 May 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: LEONGATHA, VIC

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : SYDNEY, NSW

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's High Jump	5

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - High Jump A	Women's High Jump Qualification - Group B	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - High Jump A	Women's High Jump Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	High Jump
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (1.89)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	High Jump
2015	Beijing, CHN	8th (1.92)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	High Jump
2021	1 x 3rd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2021	High Jump	Stockholm, SWE	1.96

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2021	High Jump	World Athletics Continental Tour	Turku, FIN	1.93

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Nickname:

Floss (rio2016.olympics.com.au, 01 Apr 2016)

Occupation:

Athlete

Languages spoken:

English

Coach:

Alex Stewart [personal], AUS, from 2019

Debut:

2014 for Australia (heraldsun.com.au, 02 Apr 2016)

Start:

She began the sport in school before joining the Australian children's athletics programme Little Athletics. (insideathletics.com.au, 13 Dec 2013)

Reason:

She chose the high jump because she liked jumping and felt it suited her thin frame. (theaustralian.com.au, 09 Dec 2013)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (athletics.com.au, 05 Mar 2020)

Influence:

Her family, and coach David Green. (huffingtonpost.com.au, 01 Nov 2015)

General Interest

General
LONG-TERM RECORD BROKEN
In February 2020 she broke the Australian women's high jump record that had stood since 1989. She cleared 1.99m at a meet in New Zealand, beating the previous Australian record of 1.98m that was first set in 1989 and then equalled in 1994. (smh.com.au, 28 Feb 2020)

BREAK AND RETURN
She took a year away from the sport after failing to make the Australian team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. When she returned she began working with coach Alex Stewart. "I was still persistent after [the 2016 Olympic Games in] Rio until March 2018. Then I essentially quit athletics. I didn't compete for a year, I stopped training. There were definitely some low moments. Stepping away from athletics felt like a loss of identity, because it had been my life for so long." (abc.net.au, 28 Feb 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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