Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney at Caledonian Ground in Dunedin on 5 March 2016 after clearing 4.80 m

Personal information

Born

11 December 1996 (age 20)
Auckland, New Zealand

Height

1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)

Sport

Country

New Zealand

Sport

Athletics

Event(s)

Pole vault

Club

North Harbour Bays Athletics

Coached by

Jeremy McColl

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

Outdoor: 4.82 m (2017 AR)
Indoor: 4.70 m (2016 NR)

Medal record

Women's athletics
Representing New Zealand
Olympic Games
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Pole vault
World Junior Championships
	2014 Eugene	Pole vault
Summer Universiade
	2015 Gwangju	Pole vault

Updated on 18 March 2016.

Eliza McCartney (born 11 December 1996) is a New Zealand track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. She is the current New Zealand and Oceania record holder at 4.82 m (15 ft 9 ³⁄₄ in), and is a former outdoor world junior record holder at 4.64 m (15 ft 2 ¹⁄₂ in). She was a silver medallist at the Summer Universiade in 2015. Competing in senior competitions since March 2016, she won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

McCartney was born in Auckland, where she still lives in the seaside suburb of Devonport. Her father William McCartney previously competed in the high jump while her mother Donna Marshall previously competed as a gymnast. She has two younger brothers. She attended Vauxhall School and later Takapuna Grammar School, where she was in the same year as the singer-songwriter Lorde; the two played netball together. McCartney was most fond of netball growing up, with her height and agility giving her an advantage in playing defence. She also participated in a myriad of other sports in her youth, including cross country running, basketball, touch rugby, squash, tennis, swimming, and water polo. Eventually, she moved onto track and field, being a successful high jumper in her early teens before beginning pole vaulting in 2011. McCartney studies physiology at the University of Auckland.

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