Maryse Luzolo

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Maryse Luzolo
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Birth nameMaryse Luzolo
NationalityGerman
Born (1995-03-15) 15 March 1995 (age 29)
Frankfurt
Sport
Sport Track and Field
Event Long jump

Maryse Luzolo (born 15 March 1995) is a German Olympic long jumper.

She was born and raised in Frankfurt to parents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She attended the Carl von Weinberg School in Frankfurt. [1]

Luzolo won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Athletics Championships, and was the 2017 German U23 champion before suffering heavy knee injuries from a hyperextension which severely hampered her career. [2]

She has been part of the German Armed Forces since 2016. In 2018, she started studying sports and geography at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. In December 2019, she won the silver medal at the World Military Championship in Wuhan, China. It was her first international competition after two and a half years. [3]

She was part of the German Olympic long jump team for the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. [4]

She finished ninth at the 2023 World Athletics Championships long jump in Budapest. [5]

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References

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