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Liam Adcock
Australian athlete (born 1996) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liam Adcock (born 21 June 1996) is an Australian long jumper. He has won the Australian national title and in 2024 became the Oceanian champion.[1]
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Early life
He received New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship.[2]
Career
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He competed for Australia at the 2017 World University Games and was second in consecutive years at the Australian Athletics Championships, in 2017 and 2018. However, a succession of injuries prevented him from competing consistently again until 2022.[3]
He won the 2023 Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane with a long jump of 8.06 metres.[4] He made a personal best jump of 8.15 metres in Gold Coast in April 2023.[5] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, where he jumped 7.99 metres to miss a spot in the final by one centimetre.[6][7]
He won gold at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji with a jump of 8.05 metres.[8] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9][10]
He jumped 7.97m (-0.1) to win the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025.[11] He jumped 8.33 metres (+1.8) at the Perth Classic on 1 March 2025.[12] He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025 where he won the bronze medal in the men's long jump with a leap of 8.28 metres, just 2 cm behind gold medal winner Mattia Furlani, and 1 cm from silver medalist Wayne Pinnock of Jamaica.[13][14]
He won the 2025 Australian Athletics Championships in April 2025, in Perth. His best jump was a wind-assisted 8.14 metres but his best wind-legal jump of 8.06 metres would also have been enough for the title.[15] He jumped 8.15 metres to finish runner-up at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025.[16] He finished seventh at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025.[17] He won the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan, with a best jump of 8.20 metres on 18 May 2025.[18] He set a new personal best 8.34 metres to win the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025.[19]
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Personal life
He earned a Bachelor degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Queensland in 2019. He worked as a tax consultant prior to his return to athletics. In 2023, he moved to Sydney. He is a member of Sydney University Athletics Club.[20][21][3]
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