Kurtis Marschall (born 25 April 1997) is an Australian pole vaulter, bronze medalist at the 2023 and 2025 World Athletics Championships.
.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 | |
| Personal best(s) | 6.00 m (Clermont-Ferrand, 2026) |
Early years
editMarschall 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
editin 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 6.00 metres, set at the 2026 edition of the All Star Perche.[5] This jump made him the fourth Australian to clear the six metre mark. Later in 2026 Marschall was the first person in three years to beat Armand Duplantis when he won Diamond League in Stockholm.
International competitions
edit| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Representing  Australia | |||||
| 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 | |
| World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | 5.95 m | ||
| 2026 | World Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 3rd | 6.00 m | |
1No mark in the final
References
edit- ↑ "Kurtis Marschall". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 "Kurtis Marschall". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ↑ "Kurtis Marschall". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ↑ Salvado, John (3 August 2021). "Marschall last in Olympic pole vault final". Canberra Times. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ↑ "Duplantis opens 2026 season with 6.06m world lead at All Star Perche". European Athletics. 22 February 2026. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
External links
edit- Kurtis Marschall at World Athletics
- Kurtis Marschall at Diamond League
- Kurtis Marschall at Australian Athletics
- Kurtis Marschall at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Kurtis Marschall at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Kurtis Marschall at Olympics.com
- Kurtis Marschall at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)
- Kurtis Marschall at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
