Ronnie Buckley

Ronnie Buckley (born 15 June 1986) is an Australian male discus thrower, who won an individual gold medal for Australia in discus throwing at the Youth World Championships (u18) in Sherbrooke Canada (2003) he also went onto represent his home country of Australia in (2004) at the world junior (u20) world championships in Grosseto Italy the following year. Mr Buckley over his discus career broke many records that still stand to this day and can be seen in the athletics Australia and athletics Victoria records archive.[1]

Ronnie Buckley
Personal information
Born (1986-06-15) 15 June 1986
Australia
Height195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight170 kg (375 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
SportAthletics
Event(s)Discus throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Discus throw:
  • 64.69m u17 record 1.5kg(2002) Olympic Park, Victoria
  • 59.66m u19/u20 records 1.75kg (2004) Box Hill, Victoria
  • 2kg open PB 55.51 at 18 years of age (2004)

References
  1. "IAAF World Youth Championships Cali 2015 - Statistics Handbook" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 18 September 2017.


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