Jarrod Bannister was an Australian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
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10 Facts About Jarrod Bannister
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Jarrod Bannister won the youth javelin title at the Australian Athletics Championships in 2001.
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Jarrod Bannister later won five senior javelin national titles: in 2006,2007,2009,2010, and 2012.
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Jarrod Bannister competed twice at the World Championships in Athletics, placing eleventh in qualifying in 2007 and finishing seventh in the final in 2011.
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Jarrod Bannister represented his country at the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, finishing sixth at the former and placing twenty-seventh in the qualifying stage of the latter.
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Jarrod Bannister won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – the first and only international senior medal of his career.
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Jarrod Bannister maintained this was accidental and said the testers were given incorrect information on one occasion.
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Jarrod Bannister competed in 2016 but did not participate in the 2017 season.
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On 8 February 2018, Jarrod Bannister was found dead in his home in Eindhoven, Netherlands, where he was living with his girlfriend while training.
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Athletics commentator and ex-Olympian David Culbert said Jarrod Bannister was "a super athlete who sadly had many demons".
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