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Dusty Jonas

American athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ1267759 ↗
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Dusty Jonas (born 19 April 1986) is an American high jumper.

Career

Jonas was the NCAA National Champion in the high jump at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jonas finished 26th overall with a jump of 2.20.

At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Jonas won the bronze medal in the high jump with a jump of 2.31.

Personal bests

Last updated February 7, 2012.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2008, 2010, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-04-19. For this dossier, Dusty, Jonas and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dusty Jonas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.