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Mick McGrath (triple jumper)

Australian triple jumper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ6838320 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gerald Michael McGrath (born 28 November 1947) is an Australian former triple jumper who competed in the 1970 Commonwealth Games and the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Biography

McGrath attended the University of Melbourne, gaining a full blue in athletics in 1969.

McGrath won the British AAA Championships title at the 1975 AAA Championships.

In 2014 he was named by Athletics Victoria in the Victorian all-time Commonwealth Games team.

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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—1947, 1970, 1972, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-11-28. For this dossier, Mick, McGrath and triple is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mick McGrath (triple jumper)” 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.