Eleanor Patterson (athlete)

Eleanor Patterson

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1996-05-22) 22 May 1996 (age 20) Leongatha, Victoria
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) (2013)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Australia Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow High jump World Youth Championships 2013 Donetsk High jump

Eleanor Patterson (born 22 May 1996) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. She has a personal best of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) for the event. She is the joint holder of the world youth best and the outright holder of the Oceanian junior record. She was the gold medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics.

Born in Leongatha, Victoria, Patterson began competing in the high jump as a child. She competed in local events from the age of eight and continued on with the Little Athletics programme. She was runner-up at the national junior (under-20) championships in 2011, setting a personal best of 1.82 m (5 ft 11 ¹⁄₂ in) at the age of fourteen. She returned the following year to win that title and improved to 1.87 m (6 ft 1 ¹⁄₂ in) that November.

In her first international competition she won the gold medal at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics, setting a personal best of 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) to win by a margin of six centimetres. In December she broke records at the Australian Schools Championships, clearing a height of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) to equal the world youth best held by Charmaine Gale-Weavers (set in 1981) and Olga Turchak (set in 1984) and set a new Oceanian junior record. The 17-year-old had three attempts at the Australian senior record of 1.98 m (6 ft 5 ³⁄₄ in), but had three failures.

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