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English: Memorial Van Damme, Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)
Olympic champion: - 2016 Rio de Janeiro, heptathlon - 2020 Tokyo, heptathlon World champion: - 2017 London, heptathlon - 2022 Eugene, heptathlon Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. As of February 2020, Thiam holds the Belgian record in women's heptathlon, women's javelin and women's long jump. She set a new world record for the high jump discipline within a women's heptathlon competition in 2019. Thiam is two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning the heptathlon event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the only Belgian athlete, male or female, to successfully defend an Olympic title and only the second woman after Jackie Joyner-Kersee to win back-to-back Olympic titles in the event. She also won the gold medal at the 2017 World Championships and 2018 European Championships and the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. She was voted IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2017. She was a Belgian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 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. On 28 May 2017, Thiam won the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria with a total of 7013 points, 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 (USA) and Carolina Klüft (Sweden). 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. (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafissatou_Thiam) |
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