July 16, 2024 • 8 mins
New Zealand high jumper Hamish Kerr has matched his personal best outdoor height to claim victory at a Diamond League track and field meet in Monaco.
In an encouraging performance two weeks out from the Paris Olympics, Kerr was the only athlete to clear 2.33m, achieving the height on his third attempt.
Kerr was three centimetres short of his national record - set four months ago when he won gold at the world indoor championships in Glasgow.
That 2.36m height remains the second-highest clearance of any athlete this year behind the 2.37m achieved by Italian Gianmarco Tamberi.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're talking track and field now on the show where
Kie we jump a high jump. A Hamish curve delivered
the perfect confidence booster ahead of the Paris Olympics with
an outstanding victory in the Monaco Diamond League event last week.
Hed He equaled his lifetime best outdoor performance with a
brilliant clearance two point three to three meters on his
third attempt to claim back to back Diamond League victories,
(00:22):
a notable return to former head of Paris. He joins
us on the show this morning, Hamish, Good morning, congratulations mate.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Awning, thanks for having me on. Yeah, it's obviously an
awesome performance. I'm real stoked.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You kind of left it till the last really on
your third attempt, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, Yeah, I was. Actually I was actually sitting in
second place on that jump due to countback, so I
kind of knew that I had to had to get
a big one out of the tubes if I was
to get the ones. So it was pretty stoke though
I did, and that's obviously a massive, massive confidence booster
going into Paris.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How did you make it work on that third jump?
Was it the crowd that lifted you? Did you have
to totally concentrate on the on the run up.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think like it was just trusting that I was
obviously capable of it, and then also just like trusting
what my coach, Jimmy was trying to get me to do.
We had a bit of a situation in the sense
that I obviously was so I cleared two thirty one,
which was hype beforehand first attempt, and then we had
(01:30):
about ten minutes where we didn't jump because there was
a couple of track races going on and they sort
of said that we could jump, but we also wanted
to wait for the track races to be over so
that we could kind of get the crowd going and
get a bit of hype. And I think that my
first two attempts, I was just a little bit hurried
and a little bit probably probably cooled down just a
tiny bit, and so just there was just no connection
(01:52):
in the run up, and my coach was just you know,
telling me, yep, you're getting bitter, You're getting closer, getting closer,
but you just have to just be patient and really
trust the jump and trust the run up and all
the great things that I was doing in the comp
before them, And so yeah, it was quite cool to
know that I had the trust to actually listen to
him and rely on his guidance, and obviously I got
(02:14):
the result that I needed. So yeah, I start.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And the crowd were right behind you. You do you
enjoy that?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah? Massively. I think that was the awesome thing about
Monaco as well, as the crowd sort of started slow,
but as we sort of moved through the heights and
they sort of got more and more involved, it just
brought out the best in us as well. So yeah,
it's always great when you've got a good crowd like
that and a pretty pretty special place in the world
to be doing high jumping as well. So it's a
(02:42):
very cool experience there.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You nudge the American jump ashore with me Kun and
the Italian Are they the two that you're going to
have to watch for Paris?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Look, there are a couple of the probably six guys
that that really could do something special in Paris. You know,
I think we're in a pretty unique situation and means
high jump at the moment where we've kind of got
a couple of sort of younger or slightly less experienced
jumpers coming through who are really talented, and then you've
kind of for got your your guys who have been
(03:12):
on tour for a couple of years like me and
a couple of other guys, and then you've got your
your outgoing current Olympic champions who have both indicated that
this will be their last Olympics. So yeah, it's sort
of a bit of a mix of youth, middle aged
people and the elderlys I suppose. So yeah, I think
they're at any given day, you know, probably one of
(03:33):
sex guys could could take the title. So you know,
just for me, it's all about just making sure that
I'm going to be the guy to put the best,
best show forward, hopefully in Paris.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Have you got more in you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, I would like to think I do for sure,
and I think that, you know, the program that we've
been following over the last a few you know, a
few answers has really been set up to put forward
a really good performance in August. You know, there was
there was a chance that we would be seeing some
(04:10):
nice form starting to come in around this competition, and
we've definitely got that. But I think that for now
there's there's a very good chance that the body is
only going to get better and.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Better between now and I think when your competition kicks
in about August the seventh. Do you have any more events?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, yes I do. I'm actually heading to London this
weekend for London Diamal League, which is the final final
big athletics comp before the Olympics. So it's going to
be super exciting to be a part of that and
just experience what you know, what what London crowd can
bring and what the what the jumping can do with
with you know, everyone sort of looking towards doing the
(04:49):
last big cut out before the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Is there anything you've changed majorly in your run up
or your you know, your performance at all that your
coach has worked on for you?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Look, I mean we're always teaking things, but I think
the big, the big thing for me this year has
just been the structure around how we prepare for different events.
And I think that that's been really really well set
out in terms of, you know, what are the different
challenges you have in each phase of training, But it
you know, heavy heavy drink gym block or a really
intensive jumping block or a competition block, and it's just
(05:22):
been about sort of what are the things that will
be the challenges and how do we kind of minimize
the surprises going into those blocks, because I think that ultimately,
you know, you can do as much training as you want,
but at the end of the day, if you don't
trust the process and trust the trust all the training
you've done, then then you're not going to be able
to execute it all. So yeah, it's all about just
(05:43):
building trust and what we're doing and understanding that you know,
there will be hack ups along the way, but those
those you know, so long as we're discussing them and
really working through them as a team, you know, they
can definitely be minimized as much as possible. So yeah,
it's it's been really awesome to be able to feel
like we get to this point in the year and
things have gone pretty smoothly so far, and you know,
(06:04):
every kind of little cup we have had has has
kind of been worked out pretty well. But you know,
obviously we've you know, it will only get more intense
between now and the games, and there's definitely probably a
few more things that we really need to nail before
you get.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
There, and hemous these will be your second games. Actually,
you were tenth in Tokyo, so no doubt you're really
really excited about heading to Paris soon.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean, Tokyo is an amazing experience. Like I mean,
I think, you know, going to the Olympics is pretty
life changing, and you know, becoming an Olympian and you know,
just everything that is attached with that is just so amazing.
But you know, at the same time, COVID was pretty
pretty rife back then, and you know, we weren't able
to experience the full games experience with our friends and family,
(06:48):
and you know, I packed out crowds. So I think
that the challenge of going to Paris and really relishing
what kind of a real, sort of true Olympic experience
will be is something that makes me kind of feel like,
in a way, it's my first Olympics all over again.
And so I think that's sort of a quite novel
and exciting place to be as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And we've got quite a track and field contingent really
go to Paris, too, haven't we, with Tom Walsh and
Zoe Hobbes and people like that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah. Oh, look, I mean the team's just going from
strength to strength at the moment. I think that in
the last of the three years, obviously we've we've had
a couple of retirees in terms of, you know, some
of our really established athletes, but I think that you know,
the young generation and the sort of slightly more established
guys like Tom have have really shone through. And I
mean you only have to look at World in Doors
(07:35):
this year we were third on the middle table to
know that we've got some very very exciting talents and
I think that you know, there's there's real possibilities that
the Games could be very special for us as a
as a team.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And when it's all overdone and dusted in Paris, any
event you want to you've marked, do you want to
go and watch and relax at.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, Unfortunately for me, my final, so my qualifyings on
the seventh, and my finals on the tenth, and the
closing ceremonies actually on the eleventh. So as much as
much as I'd love to be going to watch everything,
I think that everything wi pretty much be over by
the time I'm done. So it's almost like the worst
part of going to the Olympics is the fact that
(08:15):
you've actually got to focus on the Olympics rather than
just sit down and watch for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, hey, it's the build up has been fantastic for you,
all the best for London and all the best for
Paris and the Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you very much. Yah, it's gonna be awesome.
We're talking track and field now on the show where
Kie we jump a high jump. A Hamish curve delivered
the perfect confidence booster ahead of the Paris Olympics with
an outstanding victory in the Monaco Diamond League event last week.
Hed He equaled his lifetime best outdoor performance with a
brilliant clearance two point three to three meters on his
third attempt to claim back to back Diamond League victories,
(00:22):
a notable return to former head of Paris. He joins
us on the show this morning, Hamish, Good morning, congratulations mate.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Awning, thanks for having me on. Yeah, it's obviously an
awesome performance. I'm real stoked.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You kind of left it till the last really on
your third attempt, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, Yeah, I was. Actually I was actually sitting in
second place on that jump due to countback, so I
kind of knew that I had to had to get
a big one out of the tubes if I was
to get the ones. So it was pretty stoke though
I did, and that's obviously a massive, massive confidence booster
going into Paris.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
How did you make it work on that third jump?
Was it the crowd that lifted you? Did you have
to totally concentrate on the on the run up.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think like it was just trusting that I was
obviously capable of it, and then also just like trusting
what my coach, Jimmy was trying to get me to do.
We had a bit of a situation in the sense
that I obviously was so I cleared two thirty one,
which was hype beforehand first attempt, and then we had
(01:30):
about ten minutes where we didn't jump because there was
a couple of track races going on and they sort
of said that we could jump, but we also wanted
to wait for the track races to be over so
that we could kind of get the crowd going and
get a bit of hype. And I think that my
first two attempts, I was just a little bit hurried
and a little bit probably probably cooled down just a
tiny bit, and so just there was just no connection
(01:52):
in the run up, and my coach was just you know,
telling me, yep, you're getting bitter, You're getting closer, getting closer,
but you just have to just be patient and really
trust the jump and trust the run up and all
the great things that I was doing in the comp
before them, And so yeah, it was quite cool to
know that I had the trust to actually listen to
him and rely on his guidance, and obviously I got
(02:14):
the result that I needed. So yeah, I start.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And the crowd were right behind you. You do you
enjoy that?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah? Massively. I think that was the awesome thing about
Monaco as well, as the crowd sort of started slow,
but as we sort of moved through the heights and
they sort of got more and more involved, it just
brought out the best in us as well. So yeah,
it's always great when you've got a good crowd like
that and a pretty pretty special place in the world
to be doing high jumping as well. So it's a
(02:42):
very cool experience there.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You nudge the American jump ashore with me Kun and
the Italian Are they the two that you're going to
have to watch for Paris?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Look, there are a couple of the probably six guys
that that really could do something special in Paris. You know,
I think we're in a pretty unique situation and means
high jump at the moment where we've kind of got
a couple of sort of younger or slightly less experienced
jumpers coming through who are really talented, and then you've
kind of for got your your guys who have been
(03:12):
on tour for a couple of years like me and
a couple of other guys, and then you've got your
your outgoing current Olympic champions who have both indicated that
this will be their last Olympics. So yeah, it's sort
of a bit of a mix of youth, middle aged
people and the elderlys I suppose. So yeah, I think
they're at any given day, you know, probably one of
(03:33):
sex guys could could take the title. So you know,
just for me, it's all about just making sure that
I'm going to be the guy to put the best,
best show forward, hopefully in Paris.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Have you got more in you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, I would like to think I do for sure,
and I think that, you know, the program that we've
been following over the last a few you know, a
few answers has really been set up to put forward
a really good performance in August. You know, there was
there was a chance that we would be seeing some
(04:10):
nice form starting to come in around this competition, and
we've definitely got that. But I think that for now
there's there's a very good chance that the body is
only going to get better and.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Better between now and I think when your competition kicks
in about August the seventh. Do you have any more events?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, yes I do. I'm actually heading to London this
weekend for London Diamal League, which is the final final
big athletics comp before the Olympics. So it's going to
be super exciting to be a part of that and
just experience what you know, what what London crowd can
bring and what the what the jumping can do with
with you know, everyone sort of looking towards doing the
(04:49):
last big cut out before the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Is there anything you've changed majorly in your run up
or your you know, your performance at all that your
coach has worked on for you?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Look, I mean we're always teaking things, but I think
the big, the big thing for me this year has
just been the structure around how we prepare for different events.
And I think that that's been really really well set
out in terms of, you know, what are the different
challenges you have in each phase of training, But it
you know, heavy heavy drink gym block or a really
intensive jumping block or a competition block, and it's just
(05:22):
been about sort of what are the things that will
be the challenges and how do we kind of minimize
the surprises going into those blocks, because I think that ultimately,
you know, you can do as much training as you want,
but at the end of the day, if you don't
trust the process and trust the trust all the training
you've done, then then you're not going to be able
to execute it all. So yeah, it's all about just
(05:43):
building trust and what we're doing and understanding that you know,
there will be hack ups along the way, but those
those you know, so long as we're discussing them and
really working through them as a team, you know, they
can definitely be minimized as much as possible. So yeah,
it's it's been really awesome to be able to feel
like we get to this point in the year and
things have gone pretty smoothly so far, and you know,
(06:04):
every kind of little cup we have had has has
kind of been worked out pretty well. But you know,
obviously we've you know, it will only get more intense
between now and the games, and there's definitely probably a
few more things that we really need to nail before
you get.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
There, and hemous these will be your second games. Actually,
you were tenth in Tokyo, so no doubt you're really
really excited about heading to Paris soon.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean, Tokyo is an amazing experience. Like I mean,
I think, you know, going to the Olympics is pretty
life changing, and you know, becoming an Olympian and you know,
just everything that is attached with that is just so amazing.
But you know, at the same time, COVID was pretty
pretty rife back then, and you know, we weren't able
to experience the full games experience with our friends and family,
(06:48):
and you know, I packed out crowds. So I think
that the challenge of going to Paris and really relishing
what kind of a real, sort of true Olympic experience
will be is something that makes me kind of feel like,
in a way, it's my first Olympics all over again.
And so I think that's sort of a quite novel
and exciting place to be as well.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And we've got quite a track and field contingent really
go to Paris, too, haven't we, with Tom Walsh and
Zoe Hobbes and people like that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah. Oh, look, I mean the team's just going from
strength to strength at the moment. I think that in
the last of the three years, obviously we've we've had
a couple of retirees in terms of, you know, some
of our really established athletes, but I think that you know,
the young generation and the sort of slightly more established
guys like Tom have have really shone through. And I
mean you only have to look at World in Doors
(07:35):
this year we were third on the middle table to
know that we've got some very very exciting talents and
I think that you know, there's there's real possibilities that
the Games could be very special for us as a
as a team.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And when it's all overdone and dusted in Paris, any
event you want to you've marked, do you want to
go and watch and relax at.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, Unfortunately for me, my final, so my qualifyings on
the seventh, and my finals on the tenth, and the
closing ceremonies actually on the eleventh. So as much as
much as I'd love to be going to watch everything,
I think that everything wi pretty much be over by
the time I'm done. So it's almost like the worst
part of going to the Olympics is the fact that
(08:15):
you've actually got to focus on the Olympics rather than
just sit down and watch for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, hey, it's the build up has been fantastic for you,
all the best for London and all the best for
Paris and the Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you very much. Yah, it's gonna be awesome.
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