Jim Barrineau

James Archibald Barrineau, Jr. (born June 25, 1955 in Fort Gordon, Georgia) is an American high jumper.

He finished second in the 1976 NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships to Dwight Stones then of Long Beach State University.

Barrineau represented his native country in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he finished a disappointing eleventh place in the final, jumping 2.14 metres.

In 1995, at the World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) Championships in Buffalo, New York he again squared off against Stones in what might have been the most anticipated and watched masters field event competition to date.

[8] Barrineau spent over 20 years as a jumps coach at James W. Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia.