Jacques Freitag
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Competitor for  South Africa |
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| Gold | 2003 Paris | High jump | |
Jacques Freitag (born June 11, 1982 in Warrenton, Northern Cape Province) a South African high jumper. He grew up in Bronkhorstspruit (50km east of Pretoria). He is 2.04 m and weighs 87 kg. His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was in 1973 a South African high jump champion with PB 1.74m. Freitag is the first athlete to win gold medals at the IAAF Senior (2003), Junior (2000) and Youth Championships (1999). Has a personal best of 2.38 m set in Oudtshoorn, South Africa 2005.
Manager: Peet van Zyl.
Coach: Martin Marx (coach of Hestrie Cloete)
Club: Rentmeester-Tuks AC, Pretoria.
[edit] Medals
- 2003 World Championships in Athletics - Gold medal
- 1999 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Gold Medal
- 1998 World Youth Championships in Athletics - Gold Medal
[edit] External links
- IAAF profile for Jacques Freitag
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Preceded by Vyacheslav Voronin |
Men's High Jump Best Year Performance 2002 |
Succeeded by Aleksander Walerianczyk |
Preceded by Stefan Holm |
Men's High Jump Best Year Performance alongside  Andriy Sokolovskyy2005 |
Succeeded by Andrey Silnov |
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