Chris Baker | |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1991 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | High jump |
Club: | Sale Harriers[1] |
Coach: | Gareth Walton & Graham Ravenscroft |
Chris Baker (born 2 February 1991) is an English athlete specialising in the high jump. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships. In addition, he represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics without advancing to the final.
His personal bests in the event are 2.29 metres outdoors (Amsterdam 2016) and 2.36 metres indoors (Hustopece 2016).
Representing and | |||||
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2008 | Pune, India | 4th | 2.06 m | ||
2013 | Tampere, Finland | 7th | 2.21 m | ||
2014 | Braunschweig, Germany | 5th | 2.19 m | ||
Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | 2.25 m | |||
Zürich, Switzerland | 11th | 2.21 m | |||
2016 | Portland, United States | 8th | 2.29 m | ||
European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | 2.29 m | ||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 16th (q) | 2.26 m | ||
2017 | Lille, France | 8th | 2.12 m | ||
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 9th | 2.21 m | |
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 16th (q) | 2.21 m | ||
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | 2.22 m |