DOREEN pole vaulter
Paris McCathrion
has proven she is a
natural athlete who can
excel at any sport she
tries. The 15-year-old
won gold at the
Australian Junior
Athletics Championships
in Sydney recently,
clearing 3.9m. Paris has
now qualified for the
July IAAF World Youth
Athletics Championships
in Lille, France and is
ranked Australia’s No.3
junior female pole
vaulter. The Ivanhoe
Grammar student also
knocked Australian
junior pole vault
champion Liz Parnov from
top spot to take out the
competition. Paris said
she was proud of her
performance at the
junior championships.
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Decathlete
Stephen Cain
Achievements as
an Athlete
Victorian Athletic
Captain & Athlete of the Meet (National Schools Champs, Hobart 2002)
Twice National
U/20 Pole Vault Champion (2001, 2002)
Twice National
U/20 Decathlon Champion (2001, 2002)
Three
times National U/20 Decathlon Record Holder (2001, 2002, 2003)
World Junior
Ranking of 2 early in 2003 and end of year ranking of 9
Victorian &
Australian Decathlon Champion (2009)
Decathlete Peter John Winter first represented Australia at the World Junior Championships in 1990. He further represented at the World Student Games in 1993. He was a Commonwealth Games silver medallist in 1994 in Victoria, Canada and first broke the Australian Record with 8074 points at that competition. He broke this record again whilst qualifying for the 1996 Summer Olympics with 8084 points after taking a year off due to an operation for a knee problem. He then competed at the 1996 Olympics in the decathlon, only to record 3 no jumps in the long jump. He was coached by highly credentialed former Ukrainian coach Efim Shuravetsky before self coaching from 1994-1996. He now has a mentoree relationship with Efim.
Source en.wikipedia.org
Alison
Inverarity was
selected to compete at the Games after winning the Olympic trials in
August with a best clearance of 1.85 metres. Inverarity’s international
career began with victory in the World Student Games in 1991. The same
year she made her first senior World Championships team, making the
final and finishing 11th in Tokyo.
The following year she was sensational at her Olympic debut, finishing
eighth in Barcelona. In 1994 she enjoyed a successful European season,
which included a jump of 1.98m to set a new Australian and Commonwealth
record. She took that form into the Commonwealth Games in Victoria,
Canada, and despite some nerves, she won gold. Her domestic season in
1995 was excellent as she was defeated only once, she moved to Melbourne
to link up with coaches Sandro Bisetto and Efim Shuravetsky.
From there she won the national title in 1998 and won bronze at the
Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. In March last year she won her
seventh national high jump title, securing a place in the team for the
World Championships in Seville.
Source
http://www.abc.net.au
Tim Forsyth's
first success on the international scene was in 1990 with a silver medal
at the World Junior Championships. In 1992 the 19-year-old Forsyth won
an Olympic bronze medal, equaling his personal best at that time of
2.34m. He went on to win another World Junior Championships silver
medal, t
His ultimate personal best jump of 2.36m was set in 1997, five months
before he won his last global-event medal: A bronze at the World
Championships in Athens. 2.36 was his ninth Australian record, and also
the Oceanian area record. Forsyth is a six-time national champion for
Australia in the men's high jump event.
Source en.wikipedia.org
Pictures
of Paris McCathrion
http://www.zimbio.com
Source; http://whittlesea-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/paris-raises-the-bar/
Finally the list of the following athletes puts into perspective the brilliance of Efim when it comes to coaching, having been involved in either the identification and/or nurturing and development of each athlete to elite status.
Nick
Avilov (Ukraine) – 1972 Olympic Gold, Decathlon World Record holder
8,454 points;
Lena Elesina (Russia) – 2000 Olympic Gold High Jump – 2.02m;
Tim Forsyth – 1992 Olympic Bronze High Jump – 2.36m;
Alison Inverarity – 1994 Commonwealth Gold High Jump – 1.98m;
Peter Winter -1994 Commonwealth Silver, 1996 Olympic Decathlon
representative;
Scott Ferrier - -1998 Commonwealth Silver, 1996 and 2000 Olympic
Decathlon representative;
Andrew Murphy -1998 Commonwealth and 2000 Olympic triple jump
representative;
Michael Hazel – 1998 Commonwealth and 2000 Olympic 400m representative
Australian National Champions include:
Paul Scott – Decathlon
Peta Kennedy – Heptathlon
Kylie Coombe – Heptathlon
Sheryl Morrow – Heptathlon
Leanne Whickam – Triple Jump
Mariclode Viduka – Triple Jump