Aiden Hinson
Australian athlete (born 2003)
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Aiden Hinson (born 5 June 2003) is an Australian triple jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2024 and 2026 Oceania Athletics Championships.[1]
Long jump: 7.61m (2022)
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| Born | 5 June 2003 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Triple jump: 16.72m (2023) Long jump: 7.61m (2022) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
From Somerville, Victoria, Hinson was a successful junior, having started at Western Port Little Athletics Hastings at the under-6 level and was also part of the Dandenong Stingrays under-16 development squad. Hinson was national under-16 long jump champion in 2018. As a 16 year-old, Hinson set a new triple jump championship record at the Oceania U18 Championships in Townsville in 2019 and also broke a 30-year record at the Australian All Schools Championships in Cairns, with a 14.55m jump.[2][3]
A member of the Victorian Institute of Sport, he won the men’s under-20 triple jump at the 2021 Australian Championships, and was subsequently selected for the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, but Australia withdrew the team because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][2] He was also selected for the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, but had to pull out through injury.[4][5]
Hinson won the Australia Athletics Championships in April 2023, finishing ahead of Connor Murphy in the final of the triple jump with a best effort of 16.61 metres.[6] That year, he moved to tenth on the Australian all-time list with a jump of 16.72 metres at the age of 19 years-old. He was selected for the Australian team to compete at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but was unable to compete due to injury.[7][4]
Hinson won the gold medal at the 2024 Oceania Athletics Championshipsin Suva, Fiji, jumping 16.32 metres to finish ahead of Welrè Olivier of New Zealand.[8]
Hinson won the 2026 Athletics Championships in Sydney in April 2026.[9] He was selected as part of the Australian team to compete at the 2026 Oceania Athletics Championships, winning the gold medal in Darwin, Northern Territory on 21 May.[10][11]
Personal life
Outside of his own athletics career, he is a trained strength and conditioning coach.[4]