Haoua Kessely

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Haoua Kessely
Personal information
Nationality Flag of France.svg French
Born2 February 1988 (1988-02-02) (age 32)
Mantes-la-Jolie
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Event(s) Long Jump, Triple Jump
ClubCA Balma
Coached byDominique Hernandez

Haoua Kessely (born 2 February 1988 in Mantes-la-Jolie, France) is a French athlete who specialises in the triple jump. Kessely competed at the 31st 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

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Biography

Haoua has won six French national Indoor Athletic Championships: five in the Long Jump in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, and one in the triple jump in 2011. [1]

In 2015 at Villeneuve-d'Ascq, she won her first Output Long Jump title with a jump of 6.13m.

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References

  1. "Haoua Kessely". bases.athle.com (in French). Fédération française d'athlétisme. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2015.