Diana Ana Maria Ion

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Diana Ana Maria Ion
Personal information
NationalityRomanian
Born (2000-11-27) 27 November 2000 (age 24)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024)
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn Triple jump
Jeux de la Francophonie
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Kinshasa Triple jump

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]

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Career

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]

References

  1. "Diana Ana Maria Ion". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  2. "Diana Ana Maria Ion placed 6th in the final of the triple jump at the Under-23 European Championships". agerpres.ro. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  3. "Talida Sfârghiu – cea mai bună sportivă a anului 2021". Obiectivdesuceava.ro (in Romanian). 19 December 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  4. "Victories for Florentina Iuşco, Daniela Stanciu and Andrei Loader in the second stage of the national championship". agerpres.ro. 22 January 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  5. "Romanian Championships". World Athletics. 8 July 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  6. Dragomir, Daniel Mihai (22 June 2023). "JE 2023: Romania - 5th place at the European Team Athletics Championships, Division 2". Stiripesurse.ro. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  7. "Jeux de la Francophonie". World Athletics. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  8. "Romanian ranks second at the Games of La Francophonie in Kinshasa". agerpres.ro. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  9. "Women's Triple Jump Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  10. "World Athletics Indoor". World Athletics. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  11. "Diana Ana Maria Ion ranked 9th in the triple jump at the world indoor championships". agerpres.ro. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  12. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  13. "Women's Triple jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  14. "Romanian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  15. Crumpey, Euan (7 March 2025). "Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  16. "Diana Ion ranked 9th in the triple jump at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing". Flashscore.ro (in Romanian). 22 March 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025.