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British high-jumper Mason killed in motorcycle accident in Jamaica

Xinhua, April 20, 2017 Adjust font size:

British high-jumper Germiane Mason, who won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, died in a motorcycle accident in Jamaica, local reports said on Thursday.

The English tabloid Daily Mail said that Mason fell off his bike on the Norman Manley highway in East Kingston at 4:20am.

Super star Usain Bolt and multiple international medallist Michael Frater were on the scene quickly after the accident, the reports said.

Mason, whose father is from London, was one of only four British athletics medallists at the 2008 Games but faced major setbacks in and out of the sport in the subsequent years.

Knee surgery at the end of the year wrecked his winter preparations and then his brother, Andre, was jailed for his part in a gang murder of a 22-year-old student in west London.

The 34-year-old, who cleared 2.34 meters at Beijing Bird Nest stadium, was seen celebrating at trackside in Beijing with Bolt. Endit