Fátima Diame
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fátima Diame Diame[1][2] |
| Born | 22 September 1996 Valencia, Spain[2] |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Long jump, Triple jump |
| Club | Valencia Esports |
| Coached by | Rafael Blanquer |
Medal record | |
Fátima Diame Diame (born 22 September 1996) is a Spanish athlete specializing in the long jump and triple jump. At the age of 17, she became the Spanish national indoor champion in both the long jump and the 60 meters.[3] Diame competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2024 World Indoor Championships.
Professional career
[edit]Diame was trained at Valencia's Esports Academy and made her professional debut in 2013 at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk. In 2015, she won a bronze medal in Long jump at the European Junior Championships which took place in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
She followed up her success in Sweden by winning a gold medal in 2018 at the Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships in Jesolo, Italy jumping at a record 13.82m. That same year, she further won two bronze medals: one at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain and the other at the Ibero American Championships in Trujillo, Peru.
The highlight of Diame's career came in summer of 2021, when she represented Spain at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.[4] She finished in 21st place.
In 2022, Diame won a gold medal at the Spanish Indoors Championships.
She competed at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where she won the bronze medal in the long jump event.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Diame was born in Valencia, Spain to Senegalese immigrant parents.
Diame is a sponsored Adidas Athlete.
International competitions
[edit]National titles
[edit]Personal bests
[edit]Outdoor
- Long jump – 6.68 (+1.9 m/s, Tarragona 2018)
- Triple jump – 14.03 (+0.4 m/s, Torrent 2017)
Indoor
- Long jump – 6.71 (Valencia 2020)
- Triple jump – 13.92 (Valencia 2020)
References
[edit]- ^ "Fátima Diame". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 5 June 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
Full name: Fátima Diame Diame
- ^ a b "Fátima Diame". RFEA.es (in Spanish). Real Federación Española de Atletismo. Retrieved 9 March 2022.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Doblete inédito de la júnior Fátima Diame en los Nacionales bajo techo de Sabadell". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 23 February 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ Blake, Lennon (21 February 2022). "Everything You Need to Know About Fatima Diame". SportPersons. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ "Athletics Results - Athletics". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
External links
[edit]- Fátima Diame at World Athletics
- Fátima Diame at RFEA (in Spanish)
- Fátima Diame at Olympics.com
- Fátima Diame at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Fátima Diame Diame (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
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- Spanish female triple jumpers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Spain
- Spanish people of Senegalese descent
- Sportspeople from Valencia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- European Games competitors for Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games
- Spanish Athletics Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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