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Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 27 November 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Diana Ana Maria Ion (born 27 November 2000) is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
A member of CSM Oneşti and coached by Cornel Grigore, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres. [2] [3]
Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres. [4] She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova. [5]
Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023. [6] She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa. [7] [8] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where she had a best jump of 13.66 metres. [9]
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres. [10] [11]
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. [12]
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. [13]
In February 2025, she won the Romanian Indoor Athletics Championships ahead of Alexia Ioana Dospin. [14] She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, with a distance of 14.31 metres. [15] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China later that same month and finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.66 metres. [16]