Jacques Freitag
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Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1982-06-11)11 June 1982 Warrenton, Cape Province, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | c. 1 July 2024(2024-07-01) (aged 42) Pretoria West, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | High jump: 2.38 (Oudtshoorn 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jacques Freitag (11 June 1982 – c. 1 July 2024) was a South African high jumper. Freitag is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, 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 South African high jump champion in 1973 with a personal best of 1.74 metres.
Freitag was found shot dead in July 2024, two weeks after going missing, at the age of 42.[1][2] His case is being considered a murder.[3]
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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1999 | World Youth Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 1st | 2.16 m |
All-Africa Games | Johannesburg, South Africa | 4th | 2.20 m | |
2000 | World Junior Championships | Santiago, Chile | 1st | 2.24 m |
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 23rd (q) | 2.15 m |
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 1st | 2.35 m |
2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 20th (q) | 2.20 m |
2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 18th (q) | 2.20 m |
Awards
- 2003 University of Pretoria Sportsman of the year.[4]
Education
He was in Hoërskool Erasmus in Bronkhorstspruit, then he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), located in Pretoria.
See also
- List of solved missing person cases
References
- ^ South Africa world champion Jacques Freitag missing MSN
- ^ "Ex-world high jump champion shot dead with body found dumped in field - The Mirror US". www.themirror.com. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Body of Former Olympian and High Jump World Champion Discovered in Field After Suspected Shooting". Peoplemag. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "2003 > University of Pretoria". Web.up.ac.za. 14 January 2010.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Jacques Freitag at World Athletics
- Jacques Freitag at Olympics.com
- Jacques Freitag at Olympedia
Achievements | ||
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Preceded by | Men's High Jump Best Year Performance 2002 | Succeeded by |
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- 1983:
Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
- 1987:
Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)
- 1991:
Charles Austin (USA)
- 1993:
Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
- 1995:
Troy Kemp (BAH)
- 1997:
Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
- 1999:
Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)
- 2001:
Martin Buß (GER)
- 2003:
Jacques Freitag (RSA)
- 2005:
Yuriy Krymarenko (UKR)
- 2007:
Donald Thomas (BAH)
- 2009:
Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
- 2011:
Jesse Williams (USA)
- 2013:
Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
- 2015:
Derek Drouin (CAN)
- 2017:
Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
- 2019:
Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
- 2022:
Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
- 2023:
Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
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