Eleanor to miss Commonwealth Games

ELEANOR Patterson of Inverloch is set to miss the upcoming Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast after narrowly missing the high jump qualifying recently.
At day four of the Australian Athletics Championships and Nomination Trials at Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast, on February 18, Patterson jumped into second place with a jump of 1.83 metres, 13 centimetres away from her personal best jump of 1.96m.
The winner of the high jump automatically qualifies for the Games and she was Cassie Purdon of Queensland, whose jump of 1.86m was three centimetres ahead of Patterson’s.
Purdon’s jump of 1.86m matched the B Qualifying height while the A qualifying height for automatic qualification is 1.92m.
According to Patterson’s coach David Green, Patterson has been working hard in training and was “doing all the right things”.
“Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you want on the day. She’s disappointed but you can’t fault her work ethic,” Mr Green said.
Patterson has many successes to her name; the 2014 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal when she was just 18 is one of many highlights. Her mammoth personal best of 1.96m was achieved in 2013, the same year she won the World Youth Championships.
At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, Patterson jumped strongly in the warm-ups but was unable to clear 1.92m which ruled her out of the final.
According to Green, Patterson will compete in the Victorian Open at Lakeside Stadium Albert Park this weekend before resting during the winter off-season.

Proud moment: winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 was a great moment for Eleanor Patterson of Inverloch.

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