Marcel Richard Mayack II (born 17 November 1990) is a

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

ian male

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competes in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

. He was the bronze medallist at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

, setting a personal best of . Born in

Ebolowa Ebolowa is a city in Cameroon. It is the capital of the South Region (Cameroon), South Region and the Mvila department. Its economy is primarily agricultural, with cocoa bean being its main crop. Economy Agriculture Agriculture is the primar ...

, he studied science and animation technology at Cameroon's National Institute of Youth and Sports. he took up

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

in 2014 and represented Cameroon in three jumping events at both the 2015 and 2017

Summer Universiade The FISU World University Games, formerly the Universiade, is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The former name is a portmanteau of the words "Universi ...

. He placed tenth in the long and triple jump finals in 2017. At the

Islamic Solidarity Games The Islamic Solidarity Games () is a multinational, multi-sport event. Managed jointly by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Islamic Solidarity Sports Association (ISSA), the Games involve elite athletes of the OIC competing in a ...

that year he was tenth in long jump and eleventh in triple jump. He also managed fifth in the long jump at the

2017 Jeux de la Francophonie The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as ''VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie'' (French language, French for ''8th Francophone Games''), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. This was the f ...

.Marcel Mayack
IAAF. Retrieved 2018-04-14.

International competitions

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* Living people 1990 births People from Ebolowa Sportspeople from South Region (Cameroon) Cameroonian male triple jumpers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Cameroon Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games Competitors at the 2015 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade African Games competitors for Cameroon Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Cameroon Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics {{Cameroon-athletics-bio-stub