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michael mason -lrb- athlete -rrb-

michael robert christopher mason -lrb- born 30 september 1986 -rrb- is a canadian high jumper .
the 2004 world junior champion , he has represented canada at the 2008 summer olympics , 2008 iaaf world indoor championships , 2010 commonwealth games , 2012 summer olympics , 2014 commonwealth games , 2014 iaaf world indoor championships and the 2015 pan american games .
his personal best for the event is 2.33 metres .
he won the iaaf world junior championships gold medal in 2004 .
from nanoose bay , british columbia , mason is only the second canadian to win a world junior championship gold medal , following mark boswell who won in 1996 .
mason holds a number of provincial records previously held by retired canadian high jumper and 1976 olympic silver medallist greg joy , including the bc high school , junior and senior records .
following his world junior win , he set the current naia record as a member of the ubc thunderbirds and was the bronze medalist at the 2006 nacac u-23 championships .
he jumped a personal best of 2.27 m to win the canadian title in 2007 canadian senior championships .
he is a member of the valley royals track and field club and is coached by ziggy szelagowicz .
in 2008 mason improved his personal best during the indoor season , to 2.30 in january in seattle .
at the 2008 world indoor championships he finished eighth .
he made his olympic debut a few months later at the 2008 beijing olympics and placed eighth in his qualifying group with a jump of 2.25 m , although he missed the final .
competing as a student-athlete , he took the silver medal in the high jump at the 2009 summer universiade .
the year after he represented canada at the 2010 commonwealth games with a seventh-place finish in the final .
he cleared 2.31 m for the first time at the baie-mahault grand prix in guadeloupe , winning the event with a meet record mark .
in 2015 mason improved his indoor personal best to 2.31 m at the millrose games and his outdoor best to 2.33 m at the edmonton track classic .
