Mayookha Johny

Mayookha Johny Mathalikunnel is an Indian former track and field athlete who specialized in long jump and triple jump. She is the first Indian woman to cross the fourteen-metre mark in triple jump and holds the current national record of 14.11 m set at the 2011 Asian Championships. Mayookha represented India in the women's triple jump event at the 2012 London Olympics.

Early life

Mayookha was born on 4 September 1988 in Bombay, Maharashtra to parents originally from Koorachundu in Kerala. Her father M. Devassya Johny was a bodybuilder and a former Mr. Bombay.

Competing for Kannur in the 50th Kerala State Athletic Championship at Thrissur, Mayookha won gold in long jump and triple jump in under-20 category in 2006. In the triple jump event she beat the more experienced M.A. Prajusha and Tincy Mathew.
She finished seventh in the long jump at the 2010 Asian Games. Johny fared better at the 2011 National Games of India the following February, taking a long and triple jump double ahead of M. A. Prajusha.
Triple Jumper Mayookha Johny has become the first Indian woman to breach the 14-metre mark as she won a bronze medal in the third and final leg of the Asian Athletics Grand Prix in Wujiang.
At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu she qualified for the finals in the women's long jump event, thereby becoming only the third Indian ever to qualify for the final of an individual event in World Championships. She finished 9th with a best jump of 6.37 m, far behind her qualifying round performance where she recorded 6.53 m.
On 22 July 2012, Mayookha Johny triple jumped 13.91 m to win the top place in a athletics meet in Dillingen. She competed at the 2012 London Olympics in the triple jump event where she finished 22nd with a jump of 13.77 m. She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the long jump.