Jagan Graeme Hames (born 31 October 1975) is a retired

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from

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, who won the gold medal at the

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, setting a personal best (8,490 points). He started his career as a

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er and has an official PB of 2.30m in this event.

Achievements

References

Jagan Hames
at Australian Athletics Historical Results

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* * 1975 births Living people Australian decathletes Australian male high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from South Australia {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub