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John Salvado

'I steer the ship': Patterson's big change after Paris

A move halfway around the world and a contentious coaching change have done nothing to halt Eleanor Patterson's relentless accumulation of major high jump medals.

Fresh off picking up silver at last weekend's world indoors in Nanjing, China - her fifth successive podium finish at an Olympics or world championships - the 28-year-old Patterson will be one of the star attractions at Saturday's Maurie Plant Meet.

And she is thrilled to have taken control of her sporting destiny.

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