Malaika Mihambo
![]() Mihambo with the box of her world champion gold medal in 2019 | |
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Nationality | German |
Born | [1] Heidelberg, Germany[1][2] | 3 February 1994
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb)[1] |
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Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Long jump |
Coached by | Ulrich Knapp[3] |
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Malaika Mihambo (German: [maˈlaɪ̯ka miːˈhamboː] (listen); born 3 February 1994) is a German athlete, and the current Olympic, world and European champion in long jump.
Career[]
Mihambo finished ninth at the 2011 World Youth Championships, then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships and the 2013 World Championships, without reaching the final.[4] She also won the gold medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships, and finished fourth at the 2014 European Championships. She won her first senior major event at the 2014 European Team Championships, setting the new championship record with a jump of 6.90 metres. In 2015, she won the gold medal at the European U23 Championships and finished sixth at the World Championships. She narrowly missed a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth, but won the bronze medal at the 2016 European Athletics Championships. In 2018, she finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships and became European champion. Mihambo won the IAAF Diamond League and became world champion in 2019. In 2021, she won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a jump of 7.00 metres, beating Brittney Reese and Ese Brume narrowly by 3 cm.
Her personal best in long jump is 7.30 metres, achieved in Doha on 6 October 2019. She represents the club LG Kurpfalz.
Personal life[]
Her mother is German and her father is Tanzanian.[5] She studied political science at the University of Mannheim.[6]
Major competitive record[]
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Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2011 | World Youth Championships | Lille, France | 9th | Long jump | 5.81 m |
2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 14th (q) | Long jump | 6.15 m |
2013 | European Junior Championships | Rieti, Italy | 1st | Long jump | 6.70 m |
World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 18th (q) | Long jump | 6.49 m | |
2014 | European Team Championships | Braunschweig, Germany | 1st | Long jump | 6.90 m, CR |
European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 4th | Long jump | 6.65 m | |
2015 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 1st | Long jump | 6.73 m |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 6th | Long jump | 6.79 m | |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd | Long jump | 6.65 m |
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 4th | Long jump | 6.95 m | |
2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 5th | Long jump | 6.64 m |
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | Long jump | 6.75 m | |
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | Long jump | 6.83 m |
European Team Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 1st | Long jump | 7.11 m w | |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st | Long jump | 7.30 m, WL | |
2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 2nd | Long jump | 6.88 m |
Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | Long jump | 7.00 m |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Malaika Mihambo". Team Deutschland (in German). Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ Christian Beister: „Mein Traum ist es, im Finale zu springen“. In: Schwetzinger Zeitung, 9 August 2013, p. 28.
- ^ "Malaika Mihambo trainiert jetzt in Saarbrücken". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 13 July 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ Malaika Mihambo at World Athletics
- ^ Wolfgang Scheerer: „ Toleranz, Teamgeist, Erfolg“ In: Südwest Presse, 28 August 2015.
- ^ Malaika Mihambo ist „Sportstipendiatin des Jahres“ 2014 Archived 12 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine In: uni-mannheim.de, 12 September 2014
External links[]
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- Malaika Mihambo at World Athletics
- Malaika Mihambo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Heidelberg
- German female long jumpers
- Olympic female long jumpers
- Olympic athletes of Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners
- European Athletics Championships winners
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- German national athletics champions
- Diamond League winners
- University of Mannheim alumni
- German people of Tanzanian descent
- German people of Zanzibari descent