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Mayookha Johny - Wikipedia

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Mayookha Johny

Mayookha Jhony at the 12th South Asian Games 2016, in Guwahati

Personal information

Full name

Mayookha Johny Mathalikunnel^[1]

Born

9 April 1988 (age 36)
Koorachund, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)^[2]

Weight

58 kg (128 lb) (2014)^[2]

Sport

Country

India

Sport

Track and field athletics

Event(s)

Long jump
Triple jump

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

Triple jump: 14.11 m
(Kobe 2011)^[3]
Long jump: 6.64 m
(New Delhi 2010)^[4]

Medal record

South Asian Games

	2016 Guwahati	Long Jump
	2016 Guwahati	Triple Jump

Updated on 9 August 2010

Mayookha Johny (born 9 April 1988) is an Indian track and field athlete from Kerala who specialises in long jump and triple jump. She holds the current Indian National record for triple jump with a mark of 14.11 m (46 ft 3+1⁄2 in). She is the first Indian woman to cross the fourteen-metre mark.^[3]

Personal life

Mayookha was born on 9 August 1988, in Koorachund, Kozhikode, a district in Kerala state, India.^[5] Her father M. D. Johny was a bodybuilder and a former Mr. Bombay.^[5] Her current coach is Shyam Kumar.

Career

Performing for Kannur in the 50th Kerala State Athletic Championship at Thrissur, Mayookha won gold in long jump and triple jump (12.38 m) in under-20 category in 2006. In the triple jump event she beat the more experienced M.A. Prajusha and Tincy Mathew.^[6]

She finished seventh in the long jump at the 2010 Asian Games. Johny fared better at the 2011 National Games of India the following February, taking a long and triple jump double ahead of M. A. Prajusha.^[7] Triple Jumper Mayookha Johny has become the first Indian woman to breach the 14-metre mark as she won a bronze medal in the third and final leg of the Asian Athletics Grand Prix in Wujiang, China.

At the Daegu 2011 World Championships in Athletics she qualified for the finals in the women's long jump event, thereby becoming only the third Indian ever to qualify for the final of an individual event in World Championships in Athletics.^[8] She finished 9th with a best jump of 6.37 meters, far behind her qualifying round performance where she recorded 6.53 meters.^[9]

In the 2012 Asian games, held at Hangzhou, China, Mayookha tried for olympic games qualification jump, but had to settle in with 6.44m. She needed another 0.21m to jump in the Olympics.^[10]

On 22 July 2012, Mayookha Johny triple jumped 13.91m to win the top place in a low-level meet in Dillingen, Germany.^[11] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the triple jump.^[12] She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the long jump.^[13]

References

^ "Prajusha jumps to national mark, agony for Mayookha". Yahoo! News. 9 October 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2010.^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b 2014 CWG profile
^ ^a ^b "Mayookha breaches 14m barrier". The Hindu. India. 30 May 2011. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
^ "iaaf.org – Athletes – Johny Mayookha Biography". Retrieved 9 August 2010.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b "Mayookha, Tintu in the spotlight". Sportstar. 4 October 2008.
^ "Mayookha completes a fine double". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 23 October 2006. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
^ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (22 February 2011). Raut and Johny takes doubles at Indian National Games in Ranchi. IAAF. Retrieved on 22 February 2011.
^ Mayookha finishes ninth
^ "2011 World Championships in Athletics, Daegu. Women's Long jump results". Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
^ "Mayookha Johny to miss long jump". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 5 March 2012.
^ "Mayookha jumps 13.91m". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 25 July 2012.
^ "Mayookha Johny Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
^ "Glasgow 2014 - Mayookha M. Devassya Johny Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2017.

External links

Mayookha Johny at World Athletics
Mayookha Johny at Olympedia

Asian Athletics Champions in women's long jump

1973: Kumi Kawada (JPN)
1975: Keiko Ogawa (JPN)
1979: Sumie Awara (JPN)
1981: Wu Feng (CHN)
1983: Liao Wenfen (CHN)
1985: Huang Donghuo (CHN)
1987: Wang Zhihui (CHN)
1989: Liu Shuzhen (CHN)
1991: Ri Yong-ae (PRK)
1993: Yao Weili (CHN)
1995: Yelena Pershina (KAZ)
1998: Guan Yingnan (CHN)
2000: Elena Bobrovskaya (KGZ)
2002: Yelena Koshcheyeva (KAZ)
2003: Anastasiya Juravleva (UZB)
2005: Anju Bobby George (IND)
2007: Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
2009: Marestella Torres (PHI)
2011: Mayookha Johny (IND)
2013: Sachiko Masumi (JPN)
2015: Lu Minjia (CHN)
2017: Bùi Thị Thu Thảo (VIE)
2019: Lu Minjia (CHN)
2023: Sumire Hata (JPN)

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