Kimani Jack
British high jumper (born 2004)
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Kimani Jack (born 31 January 2004) is a British high jumper. He made his senior debut representing Great Britain at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships having been the runner-up at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships.[1]
Biography
A member of Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers,[2] Jack attended St Albans School, Hertfordshire where he achieved A*A*A at A Level. He then studied History at the University of Birmingham.[3] At the university, he competed for the track and field team. In 2024, Jack won both the indoor and outdoor high jump titles at British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) championships.[4][5][6] He won the outdoor title again in 2025. [7]
In February 2025, he jumped a personal best height of 2.18 metres whilst competing in the Czech Republic.[8] He was runner-up at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham later that month, with a best jump of 2.15 metres to finish second behind Otis Poole.[9][10]
Jack was selected for the British team to compete at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid in June 2025, jumping a personal best 2.21 metres on his senior international debut to place seventh, helping the Great Britain team to finish in fifth place overall.[11][12][13] He was named in the British team for the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, placing eighth in the final.[14][15] Jack placed third at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships with a jump of 2.14 metres on 2 August 2025 in Birmingham, clearing the same height as joint-winners Divine Duruaku and Charlie Husbands but awarded third on countback.[16]
Having completed a graduate transfer to the University of Georgia in the United States,[17] on 10 January 2026, Jack set a new personal best with a 2.25 metres clearance at the Clemson Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina.[18] The following month he improved to 2.28 metres to win the SEC Indoor Championships.[19] On the 14 March 2026, he won a bronze medal with a jump of 2.21 metres at the 2026 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.[20]
At the close of the indoor season, Jack was named an NCAA D1 All-American and in the All-SEC Indoor T&F First Team.[21][22]
In May of 2026, during the outdoor season, Jack cleared a personal best 2.31 metres at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial in Athens, Georgia.[23] It was the first time he had breached the 2.30 barrier. The jump broke the University of Georgia school record [24] [one which had not been surpassed since 1985] and meant Jack held both the indoor and outdoor records for his university. Moreover, it moved him to number 22 on the all-time collegiate list.[25] and to being the joint seventh best British performer of all time.[26]