Jacques Freitag
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Jacques Freitag (11 June 1982 – Template:C.) 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 Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels 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, and murdered in July 2024, two weeks after going missing, at the age of 42.<ref>South Africa world champion Jacques Freitag missing MSN</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Competition recordEdit
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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 |
AwardsEdit
- 2003 University of Pretoria Sportsman of the year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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EducationEdit
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.
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