Nadia Akpana Assa (born 22 December 1995 in

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) is a Norwegian athlete specialising 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 ...

. She won the silver medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships. Her parents came to Norway from

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in the mid-1980s.Sikter mot verdenstoppen
(in Norwegian) Her personal bests in the event are 6.53 metres outdoors (+0.4 m/s, Copenhagen 2016) and 6.37 metres indoors (Bærum 2016).

International competitions

References

1995 births Living people Norwegian people of Togolese descent Norwegian female long jumpers Athletes from Oslo 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub