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Marcel Mayack

Cameroonian athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ51846140
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Marcel Richard Mayack II (born 17 November 1990) is a Cameroonian male track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. He was the bronze medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, setting a personal best of 16.80 m (55 ft 1+1⁄4 in).

Born in Ebolowa, he studied science and animation technology at Cameroon's National Institute of Youth and Sports. he took up athletics in 2014 and represented Cameroon in three jumping events at both the 2015 and 2017 Summer Universiade. He placed tenth in the long and triple jump finals in 2017. At the Islamic Solidarity Games 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.

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