Henry Frayne (athlete)
Max Henry Frayne ( born April 14, 1990 in Adelaide ) is an Australian athlete. His disciplines are the triple jump and long jump. At a height of 1.89 m his competition weight is 72 kg.
Life
Henry Frayne is the nephew of Australian 200 - and 400 -meter champion and Olympic participant Bruce Frayne. The father of Henry Frayne, Geoff Frayne, was a participant at the Australian Championships in the triple and long jump. Henry Frayne lived in Adelaide until he was 16 years old and then moved to Melbourne because there were better athletics training facilities.
Henry Frayne trained since 2009 in QAS jumps Centre in Brisbane. His former coach was Vasily Grishchenkov, in Brisbane, he is coached by Gary Bourne. Gary Bourne is also the coach of the Australian record holder in the long jump Mitchell Watt. The association of Henry Frayne is the Old Melbournians Athletic Club.
Achievements
In the Australian U20 Championships in the long jump, he was in 2007 with 6.70 m second. The Australian U20 Championships 2008, he won with 15.47 m in the triple jump and achieved the same year a new Australian U20 record of 16.58 m. In 2010 he won the Australian triple jump championship with 16,63 m.
At the Track World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2008 he was in the triple jump in the final with 16.29 m Fifth, at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade with 16,11 m twelfth in the qualification there he had with 16,62 m a new Australian U20 - record set. At the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, he qualified with 16.83 m for the final, but there was only ninth with 16.78 m. His biggest success in the long jump is the silver medal at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships 2012 in Istanbul with the same width of 8.23 m as the winner Mauro Vinicius da Silva and a new oceanic indoor record.
His longest jump in the triple jump is 17.09 meters, he jumped at the Track Classic in Perth on 11 February 2012. This is the third- longest triple jump on the Australian leaderboard, led by Ken Lorraway with 17,46 m. His longest jump in the long jump is 8.27 meters from the December 31, 2013 at Track Classic in Sydney. With these best performances he has the best Australian triple jump long jump combination.