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Nicola Olyslagers
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Australian athlete
Key facts
- Nationality
- Australian
- Born
- ( 1996-12-28 ) 28 December 1996 (age 29) , North Gosford , New South Wales , Australia
- Education
- University of Sydney
- Height
- 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 63 kg (139 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- High jump
- Olympic finals
- 2020 Tokyo High jump , Silver 2024 Paris High jump , Silver
- World finals
- 2023 Budapest High jump, Bronze 2025 Tokyo High jump, Gold
- Personal best
- High jump : 2.04 m ( 6 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Area (continental) record</span>"}]]}'>AR ( Zurich 2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicola
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Evangelicalism
- Participant in
- 2023 World Athletics Championships – women's high jump
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Official website
- nicolamcdermott.com
- Image
- Nicola McDermott (AUS).jpg
- Significant event
- wedding
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- date of birth
- 1996-12-28
- Commons category
- Nicola Olyslagers
- birth name
- Nicola Lauren McDermott
- sports discipline competed in
- high jump
- name in native language
- Nicola Olyslagers
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicola Lauren Olyslagers (née McDermott) (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics, the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the high jump. Olyslagers is the current high jump Oceanian record holder, 2025 Diamond League title holder and the world champion at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nicola Olyslagers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.