Nicola Olyslagers

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Nicola Olyslagers
File:Nicola McDermott (AUS).jpg
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born (1996-12-28) 28 December 1996 (age 28)
North Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Education University of Sydney[1]
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Weight 63 kg (139 lb)[2]
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) High jump
Achievements and titles
World finals
  • 2023 Budapest
  • High jump,  Bronze
Olympic finals
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
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Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo High jump
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris High jump
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Budapest High jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Glasgow High jump
Diamond League
Second place 2023 High jump
Second place 2024 High jump
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast High jump

Nicola Lauren Olyslagers (née McDermott) (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper.[3] She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020[4][5] and Paris 2024 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the high jump. Olyslagers is the current high jump Oceanian record holder, and the world champion at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[6]

Career

Olyslagers competed in the women's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.[7] Olyslagers also competed in the women's high jump at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she achieved a personal best jump of 1.91m and won the bronze medal.[8] On 20 June 2019, Olyslagers jumped a personal best of 1.96m at Mestský Stadion, Ostrava, Czech Republic.[9] Achieving a new personal best of 1.98 m in Sinn, Germany, on 29 August 2020,[10] she rose to second place in the all-time list of Australian women high jumpers.[11][12]

Olyslagers set Australian and Oceanian records with a personal best 2.00 m jump on 18 April 2021.[13][14] She improved her personal best to 2.01 in Stockholm on 4 July 2021 and to 2.02 at the Tokyo Olympics on 7 August 2021, winning silver.[15]

In March 2024, Olyslagers won a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[6]

International competitions

Representing  Australia
Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, United States 16th (q) 1.79 m
2015 Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 4th 1.80 m
2017 Universiade Taipei, Taiwan 7th 1.88 m
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 3rd 1.91 m
IAAF Continental Cup Győr, Hungary 5th 1.87 m
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 15th (q) 1.90 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd 2.02 m (AR)
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 5th 1.96 m
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 3rd 1.99 m
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, Great Britain 1st 1.99 m
Olympic Games Paris, France 2nd 2.00 m

Personal life

Olyslagers is of maternal Croatian ancestry, hailing from the island of Korčula.[16][17] Olyslagers had always been tall for her age, and says that she was not good at sports in her early years due to a lack of coordination. After she was introduced to athletics at school at age of seven and won the majority of the events from shotput to 200m, her parents got her involved with Little Athletics.[18]

She studied biochemistry at the University of Sydney.[19] Her sports idol is Blanka Vlašić.[17]

Olyslagers is a devout evangelical Christian, and is a member of a Pentecostal denomination that she prefers not to name.[20] She became a Christian while attending a youth camp at the age of 16, and has regularly pointed to her beliefs as a source of inspiration.[21] [22] [23][24][25] [26]

Olyslagers runs Everlasting Crowns, a ministry dedicated to encouraging and teaching athletes.[27][21]

She married Rhys Olyslagers in April 2022,[28] and since then has competed as Nicola Olyslagers.[29]

References

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External links

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  28. ↑ Busy year on several fronts for McDermott, 7 News, 3 April 2022
  29. ↑ Nina Kennedy, Matt Denny and Nicola Olyslagers earn podium finishes at Diamond League meet, ABC News, 6 June 2022
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