Role Athlete Club RFCL Height 1.84 m | Weight 68 kg Name Nafissatou Thiam | |
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Born 19 August 1994 (age 30) ( 1994-08-19 ) Similar People Axelle Dauwens, Antoinette Nana Djimou, Nadine Broersen | ||
Nafissatou thiam reportaje trans world sport 2014
Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. She was born in Namur to a Belgian mother and a Senegalese father. As of August 2017, Thiam holds the Belgian record in women's heptathlon and women's Javelin. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at both the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2017 World Championships.
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- Nafissatou thiam reportaje trans world sport 2014
- Wch 2017 london nafissatou thiam bel heptathlon gold
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Wch 2017 london nafissatou thiam bel heptathlon gold
Career
Nafi Thiam started participating in athletics when she was seven years old, winning her first national age group titles in 2009, by which time she was already specializing in the heptathlon. Her favorite athlete at the time was Swedish heptathlete Carolina Klüft. Thiam is a member of RFCL Athlétisme, an athletics club operating under the aegis of the Technical and Sports Department of the Royal Football Club de Liège, and is coached by Belgian former decathlete Roger Lespagnard. She studies geography at the University of Liège.
At the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille, France, Thiam finished fourth in the heptathlon with a total of 5366 points. Then, as a first-year junior, she finished 14th at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in the heptathlon with a total of 5384 points.
On 3 February 2013, Thiam broke the junior indoor world record in the pentathlon at a meeting in Ghent with a total of 4558 points, breaking her personal best in 4 of the 5 events. Carolina Klüft, who later became Olympic champion and triple world champion, had held the record since 2002 with 4535 points. In doing so Thiam became the first Belgian female athlete to break a world record. However, in March 2013, the record was not ratified due to a lack of anti-doping control on the day it was achieved. The testing took place the next day, which was beyond the deadline specified by the IAAF, athletics' international governing body.
On 18 July 2013 Thiam won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the European Junior Athletics Championships, achieving a new Belgian record of 6298 points.
On 13 August 2016, Thiam won the gold medal in heptathlon at the Olympic Games in Rio with 6810 points, achieving personal best marks in five of the seven disciplines and defeating reigning Olympic and World Champion Jessica Ennis-Hill of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. She was elected Belgian flag bearer at the Olympic closing ceremony.
On 3 March 2017, Thiam won the pentathlon at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with a total of 4870 points.
On 28 May 2017, Thiam won the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria with a total of 7013 points, again achieving personal best scores in five of the seven disciplines, making her the fourth woman to score 7000 points or higher in competition. As of July 2017, Thiam is third on the all-time list behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA and Carolina Klüft. Her 59.32m Javelin throw in the Hypo-Meeting heptathlon in Götzis broke the Belgian record for the women's individual event.
On 6 August 2017, Thiam won the heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in London, becoming the first Belgian to win a World Athletics Championships gold medal.
Championships
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Belgian National Championships