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Ellen Pettitt

Australian high jumper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5364978 ↗
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Ellen Pettitt (born 13 May 1986 in Perth) is an Australian high jumper turned triple jumper.

She finished sixth at the 2003 World Youth Championships and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Her personal best in the high jump is 1.91 metres, first achieved in March 2006 in Melbourne. Her triple jump personal best is 13.54 metres, set in 2014 in Glasgow.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ellen Pettitt” 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.