Miguel Uriel van Assen (born July 30, 1997 ) is a Surinamese athlete who specializes in the triple jump . Among other things, he is South American champion and winner of the Youth Olympic Games.
Miguel van Assen first competed in international championships in triple jump and high jump in 2012. At that time he won the silver medal at the U17 Caribbean Championships in Bermuda. A year later he won two gold medals in the U18 age group at the Caribbean Championships in Nassau, in the Bahamas. In July he started the triple jump at the U18 World Championships in Donetsk, where he reached the final, but did not achieve a valid distance. In March 2014, at the age of 16, he first appeared in the South American Games . In the long jump he was tenth. He finished the triple jump competition in fourth place with 15.54 m. In July he won the gold medal at the U20 Central America and Caribbean Championships in Morelia, Mexico. In this competition, he jumped the 16-meter mark for the first time. Also in July he was eleventh at the U20 World Championships in Eugene. In August he won the gold medal with 16.15 m at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.
In 2015, van Assen finished seventh at the Pan American Games in Toronto with 16.25 m . A year later he stayed well below this distance at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz and was eighth. Things went better for him another year later. At the South American Championships in Asuncíon, he won the gold medal with a new personal best of 16.94 m. In August he also competed at the World Championships in London. There he failed with 16.38 m in qualification and ended up in 23rd place. In 2018, after the South American Championships, he also won the gold medal in the triple jump at the South American Games. He won another medal with third place at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla.
In 2019 van Assen won his second medal at the Continental Championships with the bronze medal at the South American Championships in Lima. In 2020 he finished eighth in the long jump at the South American Indoor Championships, which were held for the first time in Bolivia.
Suriname
Donetsk
Santiago de Chile
Morelia
Eugene
Nanjing
Toronto
Bydgoszcz
Asunción
London
Cochabamba
Barranquilla
Lima