Jonathan Broom-Edwards

Jonathan Broom-Edwards

Athlete Information

  • Region

    Colchester

  • Date of Birth

    26/05/1998

  • Classification

    T64 High jump

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Bio

A keen basketball player growing up, Broom-Edwards transferred all his jumping skills to become one of the world’s best Para athletics high jumpers. The high-jumper won his first international medal in 2013 with silver at the World Championships in Lyon, France.

His medal-winning streak continued for the next three years as he picked up silver at the 2014 European Championships and again at the 2015 World Championships, then European bronze in 2016. At the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Broom-Edwards again claimed silver and added a third world silver to his name in 2017.

But all changed in 2019 as Broom-Edwards returned from an Achilles injury in terrific style, claiming his first world title in the T64 high jump. Silver in the T64 High Jump at the 2021 European Championships then followed, but he converted that to gold once again at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with a season’s best clearance of 2.10m.

In a great moment of sportsmanship at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, Broom-Edwards decided to share the gold in the T64 High Jump with Poland’s Maciej Lepiato after the pair both jumped the bar at 2.05m.

Major Results

2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan

  • T64 High jump: gold

2016 Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • T44 High Jump: Silver

**2023 World Para Athletics World Championships, Paris, France **

  • T64 High Jump: Gold (shared with Maciej Lepiato, Poland)

2019 World Para Athletics World Championships, Dubai, UAE

  • T64 High Jump: Gold

2017 IPC Athletics World Championships, London, UK

  • T44 High Jump: Silver

2016 IPC Athletics European Championships, Grosseto, Italy

  • T42-44 High Jump: Bronze

2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, Doha, Qatar

  • T44 High Jump: Silver

2014 IPC Athletics European Championships, Swansea, Wales

  • T44 High Jump: Silver

2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, Lyon, France

  • T44 High Jump: Silver

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