Jacques Freitag

Jacques Freitag (11 June 1982 – Template:C.) was a South African high jumper. Freitag is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win World Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of an athletic event.

Freitag grew up in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng (50 km east of Pretoria). His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was South African high jump champion in 1973 with a personal best of 1.74 metres.

Freitag was found shot, and murdered in July 2024, two weeks after going missing, at the age of 42.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Competition record

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1999	World Youth Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	2.16 m
1999	All-Africa Games	Johannesburg, South Africa	4th	2.20 m
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	1st	2.24 m
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	23rd (q)	2.15 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	1st	2.35 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	20th (q)	2.20 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	18th (q)	2.20 m

He was in Hoërskool Erasmus in Bronkhorstspruit, then he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), located in Pretoria.