Mason McGroder
Mason McGroder is an Australian long jumper.
Career
He pursues athletics as well as being a member of Australian rules football club Sydney Swans' Academy.He won the Australian U17 long jump, U17 400m and U20 long jump titles in Adelaide in 2024, as a 15 year-old. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a personal best long jump of 7.80 metres, despite still being aged 15, and the youngest member of Australia's team at the Games. His bronze medal winning personal best was the third longest in history by a 15-year-old, and made him the youngest ever Australian medallist at the World U20 Championships.
He was awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards scholarship in September 2024. Competing at the Australia All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane, he set a new Under 17 Boys meet record in the long jump of 7.86m in December 2024. The jump bettered the 7.50m mark set by Lynten Johnson in 1986, and equalled by Chris Noffke in 2004.
He was runner-up to Liam Adcock at the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025.