Maykel Massó

Maykel Massó
Maykel Massó (2016)
Full name	Maykel Demetrio Massó Bavastro
nation	Cuba
birthday	8th May 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Santiago de Cuba ,  Cuba
size	174 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.33 m
society	EPEF Sports School
Trainer	Juan Guaberto Napoles
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 Long jump  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 Long jump
last change: December 16, 2019

Maykel Demetrio Massó Bavastro (born May 8, 1999 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in the long jump . In 2016 he became U20 world champion at the age of 17.

Athletic career and life

Maykel Massó was born the youngest of three children. He comes from a sports-loving family. His father was also a track and field athlete and competed in the 400-meter run while he was active, his uncle was a gymnast. He started playing basketball when he was at school, before he followed in his father's footsteps and turned to athletics. His good sprint performances allowed him to attend a school with a sporty profile. In his early days in athletics, Massó initially competed in the pentathlon, before he increasingly limited himself to the high jump and the 1000-meter run. He then also began to improve in the long jump. In 2013 he became a Cuban schoolmaster in the long jump. Due to his shortage of height, he then renounced the high jump competitions and, on the other hand, continuously improved his best performances in the long jump, which resulted in him joining the Cuba's U20 team in Havana and continuing his education there at the EPEF Sports School.

Maykel Massó first competed in long and high jump competitions in his Cuban homeland in 2014 at the age of 15. In February 2015, at the same age, he jumped a distance of 7.85 m, which no one at this age had ever jumped before. One day after his 16th birthday, he jumped the eight-meter mark in May 2015. He traveled to the U18 World Championships in Cali as one of the top favorites . In the final he won the gold medal with a jump of 8.05 m. At the U20 Pan American Championships, he stayed almost a meter below his possibilities and finished tenth there. A month later he also took part in the World Championships in Beijing, his first international championships in adults. There he jumped 7.70 m and was eliminated in tenth in his qualifying round.

In the 2016 season it increased continuously and reached its width from the previous year around the middle of the year. In May he jumped 8.28 m in Havana and then won the gold medal at the U20 World Championships in Bydgosz, Poland. He didn't jump quite that far at the Olympic Games in Rio. With 7.81 m he retired in sixth place in his qualifying group. In 2017 he set his current personal best in July with 8.33 m and was able to qualify for the World Championships in London. There he reached the final, in which he almost confirmed his season best with 8.26 m and finished fifth.

In 2018 Massó took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. With 7.71 m, he set a personal indoor performance with which he was 13th. In the course of the summer he couldn't get to the eight-meter mark. The year 2019 started with good distances, but subsequently he jumped well below his performance limit and took 12th place in the Pan American Games .

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Cuba
2015	U18 world championships	Cali	1.	Long jump	8.05 m
	U20 Pan American Championships	Edmonton	10.	Long jump	7.11 m
	World championships	Beijing	23.	Long jump	7.70 m
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	1.	Long jump	8.00 m
	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	15th	Long jump	7.81 m
2017	World championships	London	5.	Long jump	8.26 m
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	13.	Long jump	7.71 m
2019	Pan American Games	Lima	12.	Long jump	7.21 m

Personal best

open air

• Long jump : 8.33 m, July 14, 2017, Moratalaz

Hall

• Long jump: 8.03 m, February 28, 2020, Ulsteinvik

Web links

• Maykel Massó in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Maykel Massó in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile at sports-reference.com
2. ↑ Massó's career on worldathletics.org