Thomas Martin Parsons (born 5 May 1984) is a British former high jump athlete who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Biography Parsons was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways school in Birmingham. He studied for a BSC in Sport and PE at UWIC.
Parsons finished 20th in the 2003 European Juniors, 17th in the 2005 European U23 championships and 10th in the 2005 World University Games. He represented England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he finished 11th and 10th in the 2007 World Championships in Athletics at Osaka.
Parsons represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the high jump where he finished 8th with a jump of 2.25.
He has a personal best of 2.30 metres outdoors (2008) and 2.31 metres indoors (2010) and was twice British high jump champion after winning the British Athletics Championships in 2008 and 2011.
He went to a second and third Commonwealth Games, when he represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Competition record Representing and 2003European Junior ChampionshipsTampere, Finland20th (q)2.10 m2005European U23 ChampionshipsErfurt, Germany17th (q)2.18 mUniversiadeİzmir, Turkey10th2.15 m2006Commonwealth GamesMelbourne, Australia11th2.10 m2007World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan10th2.26 m2008Olympic GamesBeijing, China8th2.25 m2010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar9th (q)2.26 mEuropean ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain10th (q)2.23 mNo Mark in the final.Commonwealth GamesDelhi, India5th2.23 m2011European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France9th (q)2.22 mWorld ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea19th (q)2.25 m2012European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland28th (q)2.10 m2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland12th (q)2.25 mCommonwealth GamesGlasgow, United Kingdom13th2.16 m
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