Michael Mason (athlete, 1986)

Michael Mason
Michael Mason in Toronto 2013
Full name	Michael Robert Christopher Mason
nation	Canada
birthday	30th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	New Westminster , Canada
size	186 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.33 m
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Glasgow 2014 2.25 m  Pan American Games silver Toronto 2015 2.31 m  Universiade silver Belgrade 2009 2.23 m  Junior World Championships gold Grosseto 2004 2.21 m
last change: July 25, 2018

Michael Robert Christopher Mason (born September 30, 1986 in New Westminster ) is a Canadian high jumper .

Athletic career

Michael Mason gained his first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2004 in Grosseto , where he won the gold medal with 2.21 m. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the U23 NCAC championships in Santo Domingo with 2.19 m. In 2007 he took part in the Summer Universiade in Bangkok , where he was eliminated from the qualification with 2.10 m. In 2008 he qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Valencia and finished eighth with 2.27 m. At the Olympic Games in Beijing , he retired with 2.25 m in qualification .

In 2009 he won the silver medal at the Student World Games in Belgrade with 2.23 m. In 2010 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi for the first time and was seventh there with 2.20 m. In 2012 he qualified again for the Olympic Games in London and this time finished eighth with 2.29 m in the final . In 2013 he took part in the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated from the qualification with 2.17 m. The following year he was eighth with 2.25 m at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot and won bronze with 2.25 m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . In 2015 he won silver with 2.31 m at the Pan American Games in Toronto and failed at the World Championships in Beijing with 2.26 minutes of qualification .

In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the third time and failed there with 2.26 m in qualification . At the 2017 World Championships in London, he did not make it into the final with 2.26 m . At the Commonwealth Games 2018 in the Australian Gold Coast , he finished sixth with 2.24 m.

In 2007 and 2008, as well as in 2017 and 2018, Mason was the Canadian high jump champion. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.33 m, July 12, 2015 in Edmonton
  • High jump (indoor) 2.31 m, February 14, 2015 in New York City

Web links

Commons : Michael Mason  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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