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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump: Outdoors 1.93m (Tucson, 2023) High jump: Indoors 1.92m (Aubiére, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Nawal Meniker (born 9 December 1997) is a French track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. [1]
She won the silver medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing in 2014, behind Yuliya Levchenko. [2] She won the silver medal behind Morgan Lake in Eskilstuna at the 2015 European Athletics Junior Championships. [3]
She began to be coached by Mickaël Hanany, based in El Paso, Texas in 2022. Meniker cleared a personal best indoors height of 1.92m in Aubiére, in February 2023. She then cleared a height of 1.93 outdoors in Tucson, Arizona in April 2023. [4] [5]
She won high jump in Division I at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023 with a clearance of 1.92 metres. [6]
Making her World Championship debut in August 2023, she qualified for the high jump final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with a jump of 1.89 metres. [7] [8]
She competed in the high jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she qualified for the final and placed eleventh overall. [9]
Blanka Vlašić is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. She is a two-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who ranks as the joint third- highest female jumper of all time with her personal best of 2.08 m. She is the Croatian record holder in the event, and a former indoor world champion.
Ruth Beitia Vila is a retired high jumper who was the 2016 Olympic champion in the women's high jump. She was also a politician in the Partido Popular and a member of the Parliament of Cantabria.
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Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene is a Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and three-time world champion. With her victory in Tokyo, Lasitskene became the fourth female high jumper in history to win gold at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
Brigetta LaShea Barrett became Beloved Promise is a former high jumper from the United States. Her biggest success is winning the silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the gold medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. She retired in 2016 at the age of 25 before coming back in 2017.
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Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam is a Belgian athlete specialising in multi-event competition. She is the first athlete with three multi-event gold medals at the Olympic Games, winning the heptathlon at the 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics. Her three individual Olympic golds in a row for a woman equals the record of Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland in the hammer and Faith Kipyegon in the 1500 metres Thiam is also the only Belgian athlete to successfully defend an Olympic title.
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Thom Mark Gicquel is a French badminton player. Competing in the mixed doubles, he was able to reach the top 10 of the BWF world rankings with his partner Delphine Delrue. Together with Delrue, he won the gold medal in the 2024 European Championships; silver in the 2022 European Championships, and 2023 European Games; and also bronze in the 2019 European Games.
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Yaroslava Oleksiivna Mahuchikh is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships and 2022 World Indoor Championships. Mahuchikh is also the 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 2019 and 2022 World Championships silver medalist and 2024 World Indoor Championships silver medalist. She is a three-time Diamond League title holder.
Chari Wanda Hawkins is an American track and field athlete who competes in combined events. She won the 2022 U.S. Indoor Pentathlon title and has represented the U.S. in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Championships, finishing 12th, and at the 2023 World Championships, finishing 8th.
Stéphanie Gicquel is a French athlete, M&A lawyer, author and speaker born in Carcassonne on July 9, 1982, ultra-distance runner and French 24-hour champion in 2018 and 2022, vice-European 24-hour champion in 2022, holder of the French athletics record in the 24-hour discipline (253.58 km) and vice-world champion in the 100 km with the French athletics team. She is also an explorer and since 2015 has held the record for the longest cross-country skiing expedition carried out by a woman in Antarctica without using sled dogs nor kites. She is also a writer, author of several books on her expeditions and on running. A figure of adaptation in extreme conditions, she participates in work with experts and scientists on the capacity of the human body to adapt to environmental stresses in a context of global warming, the impact of movement and nutrition on the well-being and performance.
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