Hamish Kerr

7 ft 7+1⁄2 in) NR (2023)
Indoors
2.36 m (7 ft 8+3⁄4 in) AR (2024)

Hamish Kerr (born 17 August 1996) is a New Zealand high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Kerr is the Oceanian indoor record holder in the high jump and holds the New Zealand outdoor record.

Career

In June 2019, Kerr equalled the national record with a jump of 2.30 m, winning the gold medal at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville.^[2] He went on to compete at the Universiade in Naples, Italy in July and then the World Athletics Championships in October in Doha, Qatar.

In February 2021, he improved the national record with 2.31 m at the Newtown Park Stadium, Wellington.^[3] Later the same year at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he finished 10th in the men's high jump final with a clearance of 2.30 m.

Kerr competed at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in March, where he surpassed the 39-year-old New Zealand indoor record of Roger Te Puni (of 2.16 m) with a bronze medal-winning jump of 2.31 m (tied with Gianmarco Tamberi). He won the Oceania Athletics Championships in June that year, jumping 2.24 m. In August, he claimed the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham with a jump of 2.25 m.

In February 2023 at the Banskobystricka latka in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, Kerr broke Tim Forsyth's Oceanian indoor record dating back to 1997 with a clearance of 2.34 m, an outright lifetime best.^[4]

Personal bests

• High jump – 2.31 m (7 ft 6+3⁄4 in) (Wellington 2021) NR
  • High jump indoor – 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) (Banská Bystrica 2023) Oceanian record

References

External links

• Hamish Kerr at World Athletics
• NZ rankings
• Hamish Kerr at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• Hamish Kerr at Olympics.com
• Hamish Kerr at Olympedia