Fátima Diame Diame (born 22 September 1996) is a Spanish athlete specializing in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

and

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

. At the age of 17, she became the Spanish national indoor champion in both the long jump and the 60 meters. Diame competed at the

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and won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2024 World Indoor Championships.

Professional career

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

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, Italy jumping at a record 13.82m. That same year, she further won two bronze medals: one at the

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, 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. She finished in 21st place. In 2022, Diame won a gold medal at the Spanish Indoors Championships. She competed at the

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where she won the bronze medal in the

event.

Personal life

Diame was born in

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, Spain to Senegalese immigrant parents. Diame is a sponsored Adidas Athlete.

International competitions

National titles

Spanish Athletics Championships The Spanish Athletics Championships () is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), which serves as the Spanish national championship for the sport. It is typically held as a two-day e ...

**Long jump:

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, 2022 **60 metres: 2014

Personal bests

Outdoor *

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

– 6.82 (+2.0 m/s, Budapest 2023) *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

– 14.03 (+0.4 m/s, Torrent 2017) Indoor *

– 6.78 (Glasgow 2024) *

– 13.92 (Valencia 2020)

References

External links

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Fátima Diame
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Fátima Diame
at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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Fátima Diame – COE – Paris 2024
1995 births Living people Spanish female long jumpers Spanish female triple jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Spain Spanish people of Senegalese descent Athletes 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 Olympic athletes for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Spanish sportswomen World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Long stubs with short prose {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub