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Jacques Freitag

Jacques Freitag
Personal information
Nationality  South African
Born (1982-06-11) 11 June 1982 (age 34)
Warrenton, Northern Cape Province
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)

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.



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