Nationality Dominican and Dutch Weight 74 kg | Height 1.8 m Alma mater Missouri State University | |
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Born 1 February 1983 (age 34) ( 1983-02-01 ) Mahaut, Dominica Profiles | ||
Fabian Florant (born 1 February 1983) is a Dominican born Dutch triple jumper who has qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Personal life
Florant was born on 1 February 1983 in Roseau, Dominica. He attended St Mary’s Primary and St Mary’s Academy schools on the island. He holds a Dutch passport through his Dutch mother. He attended Lindenwood University from 2002 to 2004, then later graduated from Missouri State University in 2006 with a Bachelors of Science in Finance. He also received a Master's degree in Administration with Business and Sports Management Emphasis in 2009.
Athletics
As a junior in Dominica he set national records in the under-17s triple jump, under-20s 100 metres and the senior 4 × 100 metres relay. He won a bronze medal at the Carifta Games in the under-17s triple jump. At the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Kingston, Jamaica, he represented Dominica, finishing seventh in his heat in the 100 metres. Whilst at Lindenwood University he won both the indoor and outdoor National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) triple jump titles in 2013 and was second in the 2014 indoor competition. He was named an All-American on four occasions.
Florant has won nine Dutch triple jump titles, five outdoors and four indoors. He competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, representing the Netherlands in the men's triple jump. He placed 13th in the qualifying round with a jump of 16.35 metres but did not advance to the final. At the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, he reached the final of the triple jump and broke his own national indoor record whilst finishing eighth.
In 2014 the Dutch Athletics Federation withdrew funding for triple jump athletes and Florant was forced to re-enter the corporate world by taking a job as a portfolio manager at a bank in Florida in the United States, where he was training. In 2016 at an event in Clermont, Florida, he set a new personal best and Dutch record with a jump of 16.92 meters, beating the standard of 16.85 meters required for qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Florant is 12x Dutch Champion (Indoor & Outdoor) and record holder for both. He is currently the best horizontal jumper in the Netherlands.
Personal Best in Triple Jump – Indoor: 16.75m Outdoor: 16.92m Long Jump Outdoor- 7.69m
