Germaine Mason

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Germaine Mason (born January 20, 1983 in Kingston , † April 20, 2017 in Jamaica ) was a British high jumper of Jamaican origin.

At the Junior World Championships in 2000 and 2002, he won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively. At the Pan American Games in 2003 in Santo Domingo he was able to win the gold medal, and at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis a 5th place for himself. The following year he won bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest . A kneecap ligament rupture prevented participation in the Athens Olympic Games .

Since he took a break from international championships in the following year, he was able to start in 2006 for Great Britain, whose citizenship he had in addition to the Jamaican because his father David comes from London. At the European Championships in Gothenburg and the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , however, he was eliminated in qualification.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he won the silver medal and equaled his best performance of 2003 with 2.34 meters.

Mason was 1.94 m tall. He started for the Birchfield Harriers in Birmingham , where he was trained by Sue Humphrey.

Germaine Mason died in April 2017 at the age of 34 in a motorcycle accident on the way to the Jamaican capital Kingston.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Germaine Mason dead: Great Britain Olympic medalist killed in motorbike crash. In: independent.co.uk , April 20, 2017, accessed April 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Germaine Mason in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on April 27, 2017.