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| Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Diana Ana Maria Ion (born 27 November 2000) is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023. [1]
A member of CSM Oneşti, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres. [2]
Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres. [3] She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova. [4]
Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023. [5] She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa. [6] [7] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [8]
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres. [9] [10]
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, she achieved her a personal best 14.23 metres to finish in fifth place overall. [11]
She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and placed 13th in qualifiers with a jump of 14.03 meters, missing qualification for the final by two centimetres. [12]
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