{{Short description|Australian long jumper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Mason McGroder | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = Australian | country = | sport = Athletics | event = Long jump | club = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2008|9|18|df=yes}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb ='''Long jump''': 7.80m (Lima, 2024) | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport | Men's athletics}} {{Medal|Country|{{AUS}}}} {{Medal|Competition|World U20 Championships}} {{Medal|Bronze|2024 Lima|Long jump}} }} '''Mason McGroder''' (born 18 September 2008) is an Australian long jumper.<ref>{{cite web|title= Mason McGroder|website=World Athletics|accessdate=12 February 2025|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/mason-mcgroder-15073596}}</ref>
==Career== He pursues athletics as well as being a member of Australian rules football club Sydney Swans' Academy.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rugby-addict.com/en/article/home/money-or-the-starter-s-gun-afl-and-nrl-riches-remain-a-lure-for-olympic-hopefuls-nicole-jeffery/677fd78712bdfd157203d3a3|website=Rugby-Addict|date=9 January 2025|title= Money or the starter's gun? AFL and NRL riches remain a lure for Olympic hopefuls |first= Nicole |last=Jeffery|accessdate=12 February 2025}}</ref>
He won the Australian U17 long jump, U17 400m and U20 long jump titles in Adelaide in 2024, as a 15 year-old.<ref name="riot">{{cite web|url= https://www.theleader.com.au/story/8614157/mason-mcgroder-youngest-australian-athlete-heads-to-2024-world-under-20-championships/|website=The Leader|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= McGroder jumps to U20 World Athletics|first=John|last=Veage|date= May 13, 2024}}</ref> He won a bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a personal best long jump of 7.80 metres, despite still being aged 15, and the youngest member of Australia's team at the Games.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/news/report/day-four-afternoon-lima-24-field-decathlon-jarvinen-farkas-yan|website=World Athletics|title= Jarvinen threatens world U20 decathlon record to get gold in Lima|accessdate=12 February 2025|date=31 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Olympics.com|accessdate=12 February 2025|url=https://www.olympics.com/en/news/world-athletics-u20-championships-2024-australia-medals-august-31-report|title= World Athletics U20 Championships 2024: Torrie Lewis, Gout Gout lead Australia's medal rush on penultimate day|date=31 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/wu20team-make-history-on-the-world-stage/|website=Athletics.com.au|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= FUTURE LOOKING BRIGHT AS AUSTRALIA'S UNDER 20 TEAM MAKE HISTORY ON THE WORLD STAGE|date=2 September 2024}}</ref> His bronze medal winning personal best was the third longest in history by a 15-year-old, and made him the youngest ever Australian medallist at the World U20 Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.trinity.nsw.edu.au/2024/09/02/mason-long-jump-bronze/|website=Trinity.nsw|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= A leap for the ages|date=2 September 2024}}</ref>
He was awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards scholarship in September 2024.<ref>{{cite web|date=17 September 2024|title= SPORT AUSTRALIA HALL OF FAME AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO FUTURE STARS OF AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/sport-australia-hall-of-fame-awards-scholarships-2025/ |website=Athletics.com.au|accessdate=12 February 2025}}</ref> Competing at the Australia All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane, he set a new Under 17 Boys meet record in the long jump of 7.86m (+2.4) in December 2024. The jump bettered the 7.50m mark set by Lynten Johnson in 1986, and equalled by Chris Noffke in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/record-breaking-all-schools-athletics-championships-in-brisbane/|title= RECORD-BREAKING ALL SCHOOLS ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN BRISBANE|website=Athletics.com.au|date= 19 January 2025|accessdate=12 February 2025}}</ref>
He was runner-up to Liam Adcock at the Australian short track national championships in Sydney on 1 February 2025.<ref>{{cite web|website=Athletics.com.au|url= https://www.athletics.com.au/news/connolly-and-kennedy-dominate-inaugural-australian-short-track-championships/|date=1 February 2025|title= CONNOLLY AND KENNEDY DOMINATE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIAN SHORT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS |accessdate=12 February 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is from Caringbah in Sydney,<ref name="riot"/><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.theleader.com.au/story/8759754/australia-secures-record-14-medals-at-world-u20-championships/|website=The Leader|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= Sutho athletes world success|first=John|last=Veage|date=September 16, 2024}}</ref> He attends Trinity Grammar School in Sydney.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.trinity.nsw.edu.au/2024/05/10/mason-m-long-jump-australian-u20-team/ |website=Trimity.nsw|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= Long jumper leaps into Aussie team|date=10 May 2024}}</ref> Australian Olympian long jumper Liam Adcock has been described as a mentor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.athletics.com.au/news/history-awaits-at-first-australian-short-track-athletics-championships/|website=Athletics.com.au|accessdate=12 February 2025|title= HISTORY AWAITS AT FIRST AUSTRALIAN SHORT TRACK ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS|date=30 January 2025}}</ref>
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