Ernle Haisley

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| name = Ernle Haisley

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|6|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Saint Catherine, Jamaica

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| nationality = Jamaican

| sport = Athletics

| event = high jump

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| height =180 cm

| weight =68 kg

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Ernest Leighton Haisley (born 20 June 1937) is a Jamaican former high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/ernie-haisley-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113813/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/ernie-haisley-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=13 May 2012}}

Biography

In 1956, Haisley took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He reached a height of 1.96 metres in the final, placing him 15th.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72288 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=2 May 2025}}

Haisley finished second behind Patrick Etolu in the high jump event at the 1958 AAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19580713/014/0014 |title=Ibbotson quits... Pirie flops |work=Sunday Sun (Newcastle) |date=13 July 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=2 May 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=2 May 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=2 May 2025}} and shortly afterwards Haisley represented Jamaica at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games winning gold in the high jump with a height of 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m). This remained the Commonwealth Games high jump record until 1962.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

In the following year, he represented British West Indies at the 1959 Pan American Games, winning bronze with a height of 2.00 metres. His final success in major competition was at the Athletics at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games in Kingston, Jamaica, where he won bronze with a height of 1.94 metres.{{fact|date=September 2024}}