{"id":70788,"date":"2021-08-07T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=70788"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:03:42","slug":"a-leap-of-faith-high-jumper-changes-her-life-and-rediscovers-her-love-by-michael-gleeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/a-leap-of-faith-high-jumper-changes-her-life-and-rediscovers-her-love-by-michael-gleeson\/","title":{"rendered":"A leap of faith: high jumper changes her life and rediscovers her love-By Michael Gleeson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">A leap of faith: high jumper changes her life and rediscovers her love-By Michael Gleeson<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70789 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/high-jumper-e1628343347621.jpg\" alt=\"high jumper\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"_2Li3P\" style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Eleanor Patterson on her way to qualifying for the high jump final in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/athletics\/a-leap-of-faith-high-jumper-changes-her-life-and-rediscovers-her-love-20210806-p58gfx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"_1ysFk\">\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Eleanor Patterson gave up high jumping in 2018. She just couldn\u2019t do it anymore. She was deeply unhappy. Jumping, the one thing she loved, no longer gave her any joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">She had won the Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow in 2014 as a crushingly shy 18-year-old schoolgirl from Leongatha. She went to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-gqw3mh\" data-track-relatedarticle=\"inarticlelink\">Rio for the Olympics but it didn\u2019t end well.\u00a0<\/a>She missed the bar at training heights and went out in the opening round. She cut a lost, despondent figure leaving the field that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">By the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she had fallen away as an athlete, failed to make the team, and gave the sport away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Yet on Saturday night Patterson will jump for an Olympic medal in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s funny, this whole experience here is a little bit of\u00a0<em>deja vu,<\/em>\u00a0but it is completely flipped upside down. I am a completely different person to what I was five years ago,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI am different in so many manners. My last championship was Rio 2016. I haven\u2019t done anything essentially since then, so I am just so happy to be partnered up with (coach) Alex Stewart and to be on this journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70790\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/high-jumper-1.jpg\" alt=\"high jumper \" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2Li3P\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Australia\u2019s Eleanor Patterson after she was eliminated from the women\u2019s high jump final at the world championships in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"_2GZaf\">\n<div class=\"_3sCHz\">\n<div class=\"adWrapper _2UMq- noPrint ad adSize-300x600\">\n<div id=\"adspot-300x600_300x250_160x600-pos2\" class=\"\" data-google-query-id=\"CJLYlPOEn_ICFVaBZgIdfcIDcw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21671780509\/theage\/sport\/athletics\/tokyoolympics_1__container__\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI essentially quit the sport in 2018 and I didn\u2019t jump for over a year, and then I really had to decide: is this really what I want to do or not? Here I am because I knew I wasn\u2019t finished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cIt is that deep-seated knowing that I belong here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"_3ujPS _3g3zI _2XZQH _4vIBa\">\n<div class=\"_1lwW_\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\"><picture class=\"\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_1.5109%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_0.6874%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_1.3749%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.53%2C$multiply_0.7082%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_13\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/748a538207249461619bef9b7848f80a390745f9 2x\" alt=\"Eleanor Patterson wins high jump gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.\" width=\"375\" height=\"212\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor Patterson wins high jump gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\">\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Patterson overhauled her life. She left Leongatha and moved to Sydney. She got a new coach and suddenly the world lightened up for her. She didn\u2019t realise how miserable she was until she stopped being miserable. She is happy now, life is good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Speaking to her, the difference is immediately apparent. She is confident and sunny, not fidgeting and self-conscious. The emotional change has created a physical change. She is leaner and fitter than before, though her workload has not changed. Emotional turmoil had taken a physical toll.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">She accepts that this maturity, in larger part, is down to her decision to force change on her life and change her environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"_1ysFk\">\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">She is jumping big again. Her performances have been slightly overshadowed by Nicola McDermott, who has twice broken the national record \u2013 a record Patterson previously held \u2013 and has become the first Australian woman to clear two metres. She then went one better \u2013 literally \u2013 and raised the record to 2.01 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"_3ujPS _3g3zI _2XZQH _4vIBa\">\n<div class=\"_1lwW_\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><picture class=\"\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_1.5109%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.6874%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_1.3749%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724, https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.7082%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_62%2Cf_auto\/d3c59d3dce082a1daa4b95713b2a25fc74e7b724 2x\" alt=\"Nicola McDermott competes in the women\u2019s high jump qualifying round on Thursday. She and Eleanor Patterson both made the final.\" width=\"375\" height=\"212\" \/><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\"><span class=\"_2Li3P\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Nicola McDermott competes in the women\u2019s high jump qualifying round on Thursday. She and Eleanor Patterson both made the final.Nicola McDermott<\/span><\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"enlarge image\">\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The pair are friends and rivals. They live an hour-and-a-half apart and have different coaches so they don\u2019t train together, but having strong domestic competition has pushed both of them to higher things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI am just so excited she is here on this journey with me as well. We push each other and she is doing phenomenal things,\u201d Patterson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And as for the final on Saturday night?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s wide open. You would not go in there without believing you can jump big heights. First and foremost, I believe I can jump over two metres, so that is my intention: to jump a PB. Whatever that brings, I am thrilled for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leap of faith: high jumper changes her life and rediscovers her love-By Michael Gleeson Eleanor Patterson on her way to qualifying for the high jump final in Tokyo. Source:Theage Eleanor Patterson gave up high jumping in 2018. She just couldn\u2019t do it anymore. She was deeply unhappy. 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