| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 31 August 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Triple jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Triple jump: 14.06 m (2025) |
Ilona Masson (born 31 August 2001) is a Belgian triple jumper. A former national under-23 record holder, she is a multiple-time senior national champion, winning titles indoors and outdoors. [1]
She won the senior Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2022, winning the triple jump in Louvain-La-Neuve with a jump of 12.91 metres. [2]
She won the senior Belgian Athletics Championships in 2023, winning the triple jump in Brugge with a jump of 13.40 metres. [3] That summer, Masson broke the Belgian under-23 record for the fourth time in two months when she jumped 13.69m at the Belgian U23 Championships. [4] The following year proved to be full of setbacks and a struggle with allergies, an ankle injury in competition, and months out with back problems. [5]
She won the Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025, winning the triple jump in Ghent with a jump of 13.75 metres. [6] This improved her personal best coming into the year by 1cm. [5]
In June 2025, she jumped over 14 metres for the first time; initially at a meeting in Athens, Greece, without a legal wind measurement (14.31 metres, [5] before completing a new personal best jump of 14.06 metres whilst competing in Geneva, Switzerland. [7] It was the sixth time she had improved her personal best that year. [5] She represented Belgium at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor, Slovenia, placing fifth with a jump of 13.96 metres. [8]
She was selected for the Belgian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, for her senior major championships debut, having qualified via her world ranking. [9] [10]
She is from Hannut in the province of Liège, Belgium. [5]