Para-athletics
Just four years after first representing his country, Jayden Sawyer became one of the world’s greatest ever javelin athletes.
Read MoreJust four years after first representing his country, Jayden Sawyer became one of the world’s greatest ever javelin athletes.
He did this with a monster 52.96m throw at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, setting a new world record in the men’s javelin F38 to win his first world crown.
It was an incredible – albeit unexpected – result for the Canberra local, whose only other major international medal had come on debut at the 2013 World Championships – bronze in the men’s javelin F37/38.
He secured second at the 2019 Australian Athletics Championships in April, and at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, he finished in fifth position with a top throw of 49.42m.
At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Jayden competed in the men’s javelin (F38) event, finishing in seventh with a top throw of 45.57m.
Off the field, Jayden holds a Certificate III in Hospitality. It is sure to come in handy, too – at just 26, Jayden has more than a few years’ competing left in him yet, but harbours dreams of opening a café in the next decade or so.
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