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Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Warrenton, Northern Cape Province |
11 June 1982 ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Rentmeester-Tuks AC, Pretoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Martin Marx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | High jump: 2.38 (Oudtshoorn 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jacques Freitag (born 11 June 1982) is a South African high jumper. He is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
Freitag grew up in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng (50 km east of Pretoria). His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was in 1973 a South African high jump champion with a personal best of 1.74 metres.
He was in Erasmus hoërskool in Bronkhorstspruit then he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria.