Ken Lorraway

Kenneth John Lorraway (6 February 1956 – 4 January 2007) was an Australian triple jumper, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1980 and 1984 and Commonwealth Games: 1978 and 1982. His best Olympic result was finishing in 8th place in Moscow, USSR with a leap of 16.44 metres.

Biography He was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He attended Watson High School in Canberra and participated in junior athletics with the North Canberra Athletic Club. Between 1974 and 1978, he attended the Southern Illinois University in the United States on an athletic scholarship. In 1978, he was selected as an All American.

Lorraway won the British AAA Championships title in the triple jump event at the 1982 AAA Championships.

He married AIS long jumper Robyn Strong, a silver medallist at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. In 1997, he was inducted into the ACT Sports Hall of Fame.

Lorraway died in Canberra, aged fifty, of a suspected heart attack.

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