Max Heß (born 13 July 1996) is a German

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

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 the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and is the 2016 European Champion.

Career

Born in 1996, Heß won a silver medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships. He won another silver medal at the 2016 World Indoor Championships. He won gold at the 2016 European Championships. In 2017, he competed in the European Indoor Championships and the European U23 Championships, winning bronze in both. At the former, he set a personal best and German record of 17.52 m.

Competition record

Personal bests

Outdoor *Long jump – 7.57 (+0.5 m/s, Weinheim 2015) *Triple jump – 17.20 (Amsterdam 2016) Indoor *Long jump – 8.03 (Chemnitz 2015) *Triple jump – 17.52 NR (Belgrade 2017)

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* * * * * * 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Chemnitz German male triple jumpers Olympic male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany European Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists German national athletics champions European Athletics Rising Star of the Year winners {{Germany-triplejump-bio-stub