Nawal Meniker
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump: Outdoors 1.93m (Tucson, 2023) High jump: Indoors 1.92m (Aubiére, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Nawal Meniker (born 9 December 1997) is a French track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.[1]
Career
[edit]She won the silver medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing in 2014, behind Yuliya Levchenko.[2] She won the silver medal behind Morgan Lake in Eskilstuna at the 2015 European Athletics Junior Championships.[3]
She began to be coached by Mickaël Hanany, based in El Paso, Texas in 2022. Meniker cleared a personal best indoors height of 1.92m in Aubiére, in February 2023. She then cleared a height of 1.93 outdoors in Tucson, Arizona in April 2023.[4][5]
She won high jump in Division I at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023 with a clearance of 1.92 metres.[6]
Making her World Championship debut in August 2023, she qualified for the high jump final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a jump of 1.89 metres.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nawal Meniker". World Athletics. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Results - World Athletics". World Athletics. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ Hingray, Arnaud (20 July 2015). "Athletics: Catalan Nawal Meniker wins silver in Sweden in the high jump". lindependant.fr. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "Championnats de France : Solène Gicquel s'offre le titre et affole les compteurs". letelegramme. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "Nawal Meniker clears 1.93m in Tucson". Newsinfrance.com. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "Team champions for the first time! Italy dominates in Silesia 2023". European Athletics. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Solène Gicquel qualifies for the high jump final at the world championships". euro.dayfr.com. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ "La Rennaise Solène Gicquel se qualifie pour la finale du saut en hauteur aux championnats du monde". Le Telegramme. August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
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- 1997 births
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- French female high jumpers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for France
- 21st-century French sportswomen
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for France
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