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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
Born | 27 April 2000 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Pentathlon 4356 (Lubbock, 2023) Heptathlon: 6180 (Adelaide, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Camryn Newton-Smith (born 27 April 2000) is an Australian multi-event athlete. In 2024, she became Australian national champion and Oceania champion in the heptathlon.
Early life
She is from Greenbank, Queensland and attended Arkansas State University where she captured school records in the pentathlon and heptathlon and was a three-time All-American. She was also named the 2023 Sun Belt Outdoor Performer of the Year, and had the distinction of winning four conference championships in four different events; the outdoor heptathlon in 2023, the javelin in 2022, and the indoor pentathlon and indoor 60m hurdles in 2020.[2][3]
Career
Newton-Smith recovered from missing the 2021 season with an Achilles injury to become the number one ranked College indoors pentathlete in the United States with a personal best score of 4,356 points in Lubbock, Texas in January 2023. She later qualified for the heptathlon at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Division 1 Championships.[4][5]
She won the 2024 Australian Athletics Championships in April 2024 with a personal best score of 6180 points in Adelaide.[6] She won gold at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji in June 2024 with 6070 points.[7][8]
In July 2024, she was selected for the heptathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9] She finished 19th with 5982 points.[10]
References
- ^ "Newton-Smith Camryn". olympics.com. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ Reed, Jeff (July 8, 2024). "Newton-Smith headed to Olympics". 247Sports. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Hudgison, Chris (8 July 2024). "Arkansas State alum Camryn Newton-Smith will represent Australia in 2024 Olympics". kait8.com. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Whaley, Logan (4 June 2023). "Camryn Newton-Smith, after overcoming adversity, hopes to bring home NCAA Outdoor Championship in first appearance". Kait8. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "GEORGIA'S KYLE GARLAND ELEVATES TO NO. 2 IN COLLEGIATE INDOOR HEPTATHLON HISTORY AT TEXAS TECH". Runnerspace. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Australia Athletics Championships 2024: Full list of medal winners". Olympics.com. 19 April 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Moloney maintains upward trajectory at Oceania Championships". World Athlerics. 5 June 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "A-State alum Camryn Newton-Smith wins Oceania Championship, bolsters Olympic qualifying resume". Kait8. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Adams, Tim (July 8, 2024). "Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's Heptathlon medal results - Paris 2024 Olympics". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2024-08-13.
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Australian heptathletes
- Athletes from Queensland
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian Athletics Championships winners
- Oceanian Athletics Championships winners
- Arkansas State Red Wolves women's track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Australia