Issam Nima ( ar, عصام نيمة, born 8 April 1979 in

El Biar El Biar (from Arabic "الأبيار", meaning "The Wells") is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is located in the administrative constituency of Bouzaréah in the Algiers Province. As of the 1998 census, it has a population of 52,582 inhabitant ...

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) is an Algerian

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 ...

er. His personal best long jump is 8.26 metres, achieved in July 2007 in

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which stands as the Algerian record as of today. He has also competed in the

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 the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down t ...

, appearing in this event at the 2012 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. His personal best in the triple jump is 16.89 metres achieve in Prague in 2012.

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