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Tim Forsyth

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	High jump
World Championships
	1997 Athens	High jump

Tim Forsyth (born 17 August 1973 in Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia) is a retired Australian three-time Olympic high jumper: 1992, 1996, and 2000).

Forsyth's first success on the international scene came in 1990 with a silver medal at the World Junior Championships. In 1992 a 19-year-old Forsyth won an Olympic bronze medal, equalling his then personal best height of 2.34m. He went on to win another World Junior Championships silver medal, this time beaten by Brit Steve Smith. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games Forsyth finished ahead of Steve Smith.

His ultimate personal best jump of 2.36m was set in 1997, five months before he won his last global-event medal: A bronze at the World Championships in Athens. 2.36m was his ninth Australian record, and also the Oceanian area record. Forsyth is a six-time national champion for Australia in the men's high jump event.

He is the son of former Essendon footballer Jim Forsyth.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Australia
1990	World Junior Championships	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	2nd	2.29 m
1991	World Indoor Championships	Seville, Spain	8th	2.28 m
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	29th (q)	2.24 m
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	3rd	2.34 m
	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	2nd	2.31 m
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	9th	2.28 m
1994	Commonwealth Games	Victoria, Canada	1st	2.32 m
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	2.25 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	7th	2.32 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	16th (q)	2.24 m
	World Championships	Athens, Greece	3rd	2.35 m
1998	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3rd	2.28 m
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	15th (q)	2.26 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	14th (q)	2.24 m

References

1. Tim Forsyth profile at ABC News
2. "Yallourn schoolboy outshines Games medallists". The Canberra Times. ACT. 12 March 1990. p. 24. Retrieved 12 April 2014.

External links

• Tim Forsyth at World Athletics

• 1973 births
• Living people
• Australian male high jumpers
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Olympic athletes for Australia
• Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
• World Athletics Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
• Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
• Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
• Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
• Australian Athletics Championships winners