Liam Adcock
Liam Adcock is an Australian long jumper. He has won the Australian national title and in 2024 became the Oceanian champion.
Early life
He received New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship.Career
He competed for Australia at the 2017 World University Games and was second in consecutive years at the Australian Athletics Championships, in 2017 and 2018. However, a succession of injuries prevented him from competing consistently again until 2022.He won the 2023 [Australian Athletics Championships] in Brisbane with a long jump of 8.06 metres. He made a personal best jump of 8.15 metres in Gold Coast in April 2023. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, where he jumped 7.99 metres to miss a spot in the final by one centimetre.
He won gold at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championships in Suva, Fiji with a jump of 8.05 metres. He competed in the long jump at the Athletics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump|2024 Paris Olympics].
He jumped 7.97m to win the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025. He jumped 8.33 metres at the Perth Classic on 1 March 2025. He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025 where he won the bronze medal in the men's long jump with a leap of 8.28 metres, just 2 cm behind gold medal winner Mattia Furlani, and 1 cm from silver medalist Wayne Pinnock of Jamaica.
He won the 2025 Australian Athletics Championships in April 2025, in Perth. His best jump was a wind-assisted 8.14 metres but his best wind-legal jump of 8.06 metres would also have been enough for the title. He jumped 8.15 metres to finish runner-up at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025. He finished seventh at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025. He won the Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan, with a best jump of 8.20 metres on 18 May 2025. He set a new personal best 8.34 metres to win the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025. He placed third with 8.24 metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.
In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 [World Athletics Championships – Men's long jump|2025 World Championships] in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.