George Avery

George Avery ( George Gordon Avery, born February 11, 1925 in Moree, New South Wales, † September 22, 2006 in Woonona, New South Wales) was an Australian triple jumper.

In 1948 he became an Australian and British champion and won at the Olympic Games in London with his personal best of 15.365 m silver medal behind the Swede Arne Åhman ( 15,40 m ) and before the Turks Ruhi Sarıalp ( 15.025 m). The following year he was national runner-up.

1948 and 1949 he also became Australian champion in the long jump.

At the Summer Olympics in 2012 his daughter Robyn Glynn took the ashes of her late father and scattered them over the start of the three diving boards. She said the family had decided in 2000 to bring back her father to the Olympics.