Triple jumper Henry Frayne pulled out an Olympic qualifying distance with his last jump at the selection trials to book himself a place for London and is one leap away from an historic jumps double.

In gusty winds at the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Frayne leapt 17.23 metres with his final jump on Friday night, clearing the qualifying standard by three centimetres with a legal wind of 0.6m.

After an illegal wind assisted 17.34m with his second last jump, Frayne had to wait for a lull in the breeze before heading down the runway to an Olympic berth.

“I was waiting for what I thought could be legal (wind). I got out there, it was still and I had to do my routine and then it picked up a bit, so I just went and landed … I looked back and saw 0.6, I was overwhelmed,” he said.

“It means so much to me.”

The Queenslander returns on Saturday in a bid to become the first Australian since 1964 to qualify for the Olympic triple jump and long jump double.

He has already registered one qualifying distance for the long jump when he bettered his personal best by 28 centimetres with a jump of 8.27m in Sydney a fortnight ago.

He needs to win on Saturday with another A-qualifier to earn selection for the long jump and match Ian Tomlinson who competed in both jumps at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.

By smashing his triple jump personal best by 24 centimetres, the 21-year-old also broke Ken Lorraway’s long-standing record as Australia’s greatest all-round horizontal jumper.

His combined 17.23m and 8.27m eclipsed Lorraway’s record of 17.46m and 7.91m.