Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney at Caledonian Ground in Dunedin on 5 March 2016 after clearing 4.80 m
Personal information
Born	(1996-12-11) 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.