Liam Adcock

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Liam Adcock

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|6|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

| height = 1.93 m

| weight = 90kg

| sport = Athletics

| event = Long jump

| pb = Long jump: 8.33m (Perth, 2025)

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Country|{{flagu|Australia}}}} {{Medal|Competition|World Indoor Championships}}

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Liam Adcock (born 21 June 1996) is an Australian long jumper. He has won the Australian national title and in 2024 became Oceania champion.{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/liam-adcock-14572123 |website=World Athletics |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Liam Adcock}}

Early life

He received New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship.{{cite web |first=Daniel |last=Lane |url=https://www.nswis.com.au/nswis-news/pacific-paradise-offers-tickets-to-paris/ |website=nswis.com |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=PACIFIC PARADISE OFFERS TICKETS TO PARIS |date=29 May 2024}}

Career

He competed for Australia at the 2017 World University Games and was second in consecutive years at the Australian Athletics Championships, in 2017 and 2018. However, a succession of injuries prevented him from competing consistently again until 2022.{{cite web |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/world-champs-athlete-profiles/liamadcock/ |website=Athletics.com.au |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Liam Adcock}}

He won the 2023 Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane with a long jump of 8.06 metres.{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7192568?eventId=10229617 |website=World Athletics |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Australian Championships |date=30 March 2023}} He made a personal best jump of 8.15 metres in Gold Coast in April 2023.{{cite web |url=https://www.unisport.com.au/post/records-tumble-at-an-historic-unisport-nationals-athletics-championships |website=Unisport |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Records tumble at an historic UniSport Nationals Athletics Championships |date=21 April 2023}} He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, where he jumped 7.99 metres to miss a spot in the final by one centimetre.{{cite web |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/au/other-sports/news/world-athletics-championships-australian-team-2023/eblplwsz1g2qm3o0vrcbroue |website=Sporting News |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Australian team for the World Athletics Championships: Which Aussies are in action in Budapest 2023? |first=Tom |last=Naghten |date=16 August 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nswis.com.au/nswis-news/australia-grabs-gold-mackenzie-little-launches-rocket-at-world-athletics-championships/ |website=nswis.com |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=AUSTRALIA GRABS GOLD; MACKENZIE LITTLE LAUNCHES ROCKET AT WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS |date=23 August 2023}}

He won gold at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji with a jump of 8.05 metres.{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/little-suva-2024-oceania-championships |website=World Athletics |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Little dominates javelin as championship records tumble at Oceania Championships |date=7 June 2024}} He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5838/men-s-long-jump-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics#google_vignette |website=Watch Athletics |access-date=28 December 2024 |title=Men's Long jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics |date=6 August 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/australia-take-second-largest-ever-team-to-paris-olympics-1039989310/ |website=Athletics Weekly |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics |first=Tim |last=Adams |date=8 July 2024}}

He jumped 7.97m (-0.1) to win the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025.{{cite web |website=Athletics.com.au |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/connolly-and-kennedy-dominate-inaugural-australian-short-track-championships/ |date=1 February 2025 |title=CONNOLLY AND KENNEDY DOMINATE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIAN SHORT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS |access-date=12 February 2025}} He jumped 8.33 metres (+1.8) at the Perth Classic on 1 March 2025.{{cite web |url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/kennedy-inches-closer-to-sub-10-performance-as-adcock-seizes-his-moment-at-perth-track-classic/ |website=Athetics.com.au |access-date=2 March 2025 |title=KENNEDY INCHES CLOSER TO SUB-10 PERFORMANCE AS ADCOCK SEIZES HIS MOMENT AT PERTH TRACK CLASSIC |date=1 March 2025}} He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025 where he won the bronze medal in the men's long jump with a leap of 8.28 metres, just 2 cm behind gold medal winner Mattia Furlani, and 1 cm from silver medalist Wayne Pinnock of Jamaica.{{cite web|url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/world-champions-and-emerging-sprinters-named-on-australian-team-for-world-athletics-indoor-championships/|title= WORLD CHAMPIONS AND EMERGING SPRINTERS NAMED ON AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR WORLD ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS|date=12 March 2025|accessdate=12 March 2025|website=Athletics.com.au}}{{cite web|url=https://sportsmax.tv/athletics/pinnock-and-mens-4x400m-relay-win-silver-as-world-indoors-ends-in-nanjing |website=SportsMax|accessdate=23 March 2025|date=23 March 2025|title= Pinnock and Men's 4x400m Relay Win Silver as World Indoors Ends in Nanjing}}

He won the 2025 Australian Athletics Championships in April 2025, in Perth. His best jump was a wind-assisted 8.14 metres but his best wind-legal jump of 8.06 metres would also have been enough for the title.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/news/report/hull-gout-olyslagers-bol-perth-australian-championships-2025-tokyo|website=World Athletics|date=13 April 2025|title= Hull does double as Gout, Olyslagers and Bol also prevail in Perth|access-date=13 April 2025}}

Personal life

He earned a Bachelor degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Queensland in 2019. He worked as a tax consultant prior to his return to athletics. In 2023, he moved to Sydney. He is a member of Sydney University Athletics Club.{{cite web |url=https://susf.com.au/blog/2024/06/14/medal-haul-for-athletes/ |website=susf.com |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=MEDAL HAUL FOR ATHLETES |date=14 June 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://bel.uq.edu.au/article/2018/03/bel-students-snag-sporting-scholarships |website=bel.uq.edu.au |access-date=9 July 2024 |title=BEL students snag sporting scholarships |date=29 March 2018}}

References

External links

{{World Athletics}}
[https://www.athletics.com.au/athlete/liam-adcock/ Liam Adcock] at Australian Athletics
[https://athletics.possumbility.com/athletes/athlete7255.htm Liam Adcock] at Australian Athletics Historical Results
{{AOC profile|liam-adcock}}
{{Olympics.com|liam-adcock}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20241006135708/https://www.olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/liam-adcock_1939816 Liam Adcock] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024/atleta/liam-adcock_1939816 alternate link])

Category:1996 births

Category:Living people

Category:Australian male long jumpers

Category:Australian Athletics Championships winners

Category:Olympic athletes for Australia

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Category:University of Queensland alumni

Category:Athletes from New South Wales

Category:21st-century Australian sportsmen

Category:World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists