Jonathan Broom-Edwards
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born |
27 May 1988 Colchester, England |
| Residence | Reading |
| Height | 1.85 cm (1 in) |
| Weight | 77.6 kg (171 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Great Britain |
| Sport | high jump |
| Disability | Talipes Equinovarus & Clubbed Foot |
| Disability class | T44 |
| Club | Newham & Essex Beagles |
| Coached by |
Paula Dunn (GBR) Fayyaz Ahmed (club) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 2.15m |
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Jonathan Broom-Edwards (born 27 May 1988) is a British para-sport athlete who competes mainly in category T44 high jump events. In 2013 he won his first major international medal with a silver medal at the IPC Athletic World Championship in the high jump.
Personal history
Broom-Edwards was born in Colchester in 1988.[1] He has congenital talipes equinovarus (clubbed foot) in his left foot but he also has problems with his right foot, a weak right knee and muscular imbalance throughout his body.[2] He matriculated to Loughborough University where he studied aeronautical engineering.[3]
Sport career
Broom-Edwards was a keen basketball player as a youth and he played for Loughborough students while at university. A friend suggested that they should try out the high jump to help them in their basketball leaps.[4] He competed at county level and university meets in the high jump, with a personal best of 2.03m in 2009.[5] In 2010 he left the sport.
Although Broom-Edwards understood he had an impairment, he never considered himself as disabled, but after watching the London 2012 Summer Paralympics he realized that he could be eligible to be classified as a para-sport competitor.[3][4] He was classified in 2013 as a T44 athlete and that year he qualified for the British team with a personal best of 2.06 at the Bedford International Games in May.[5] His first major international competition was at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon. There he competed in the T42/T44 high jump event where he took silver, losing to world record holder Maciej Lepiato of Poland.[3] The next year Broom-Edwards and Lepiato met at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea. Despite Broom-Edwards recording a personal best of 2.15, a world record height that would have won gold at the 2012 Paralympics, he was again pushed into second place as Lepiato recorded another new world record of 2.17.[6]
References
- ↑ "Broom-Edwards, Jonathan". IPC. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ↑ Hudson, Elizabeth (6 February 2014). "High jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards aims for GB top 10". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Broom-Edwards, Jonathan". IPC. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- 1 2 Hudson, Elizabeth (31 December 2013). "Paralympic sport's ones to watch for 2014". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- 1 2 "Jonathan Broom-Edwards". thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ↑ "Men's High Jump - T44". paralympic.org. Retrieved 3 October 2015.