Jaroslav Bába () (born 2 September 1984 in Karviná) is a Czech

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er. At the

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he jumped 2.25 metres, winning a joint bronze medal along with

Germaine Mason Germaine Mason (20 January 1983 – 20 April 2017) was a Jamaican-born track and field athlete competing in high jump. In 2006, he switched sporting allegiance, and then represented Great Britain. As a Great Britain competitor, he won the Silv ...

and Ştefan Vasilache. In the same year he won the

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with a jump of 2.34 m. In 2005 he jumped a new personal best of 2.36 m in July in Rome, and later finished fifth at the World Championships. He had 2.37 m on the indoor track in

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from February of the same year. He did not compete in the 2006 season. During the summer of 2009 he spent several weeks in England to improve his English language skills.

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* 1984 births Living people Czech male high jumpers Olympic athletes for the Czech Republic Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Karviná World Athletics Championships athletes for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) {{CzechRepublic-Olympic-medalist-stub