Mpho links

Mpho links

Full name

Mpho Benjamin left

nation

South Africa

birthday

20th June 1995 (age 25)

Career

discipline

high jump

Best performance

2.25 m

status

active

Medal table

Africa Games
gold	Rabat 2019	2.20 m
African Championships
bronze	Asaba 2018	2.15 m
Junior African Championships
silver	Addis Ababa 2015	2.10 m

last change: March 23, 2020

Mpho Benjamin Links (born June 20, 1995 ) is a South African high jumper .

Athletic career

Mpho Links gained his first international experience in 2015 at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa , where he won the silver medal with a skipped 2.10 m. He then took part in the Summer Universiade in Gwangju for the first time , where he finished twelfth with 2.10 m in the final, before reaching sixth place with 2.13 m at the African Games in Brazzaville . Two years later he reached seventh place at the Student World Games in Taipei with a height of 2.23 m. In 2018 he won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Asaba with 2.15 m behind the Kenyan Mathew Sawe and his compatriot Chris Moleya . In 2019 he finished fifth at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 2.21 m and then won the Africa Games in Rabat with a skipped 2.20 m.

In 2014 and 2015, as well as in 2019 , Links became the South African high jump champion.