Jack's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Taekwondo
Event: Men's Middleweight
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1992
State Born: VIC
About Jack
The sport of Takewondo certainly runs in Jack Marton's family. He is the younger brother of Carmen Marton, Australia’s first ever world taekwondo champion, and Caroline Marton, a Gold medallist in international martial arts competition. Jack is also the brother-in-law to Tokyo flyweight representative Safwan Khalil.
The Melbourne native earned gold at both the 2015 and 2019 Pacific Games, where he proved an aptitude to compete and excel on the international stage.
This skill was fully displayed in the 2019 Taekwondo World Championships, where Marton made an eye-catching run to the quarterfinals of the competition before losing narrowly to Kazakhstani Kairat Sarymsakov.
The performance instilled a much-valued confidence in Marton, who entered the 2020 Oceania Olympic Games qualification tournament primed to make a new leap in his career. A comprehensive victory against Guamanian Alexander Xavier Gaces Allen ensured Marton’s place in the Men’s Middleweight Tokyo competition.
Marton was part of the initial athlete intake of the Australian Taekwondo’s High-Performance Hub in 2018 and has since been under the guidance of national coaching director Karim Dighou.
Marton continued to work in the High-Performance Hub in order to optimise his training and conditioning prior to his Olympic debut.
Jack would make his Olympic debut at the delayed Tokyo 2020 games, in the men's middleweight Taekwondo competition. He would be eliminated from the tournament in the Round of 16, losing to Egypt's Seif Eissa 11-1.
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