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Country
  
Australia

Height
  
1.98 m

Sport
  
Athletics

Weight
  
115 kg

Name
  
Benn Harradine

Events
  
Discus throw

Role
  
Olympic athlete


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Born
  
14 October 1982 (age 41) (
1982-10-14
)
Newcastle, New South Wales

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Benn Harradine wins gold medal in discus throw


Benn Harradine (born 14 October 1982) is an Australian discus thrower who was selected to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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Harradine made the final of the discus at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where he finished eighth. Since then he has broken the Australian record three times, his current personal best being 68.20 metres thrown in Townsville in May 2013.

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He is a proud indigenous athlete from the Wotjobaluk tribe in the Wimmera district of Victoria. He cites land rights activist Vincent Lingiari as one of the people he admires. He is recognized in the Australian Olympic Committee list of Australian Indigenous Olympians.

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