- Françoise Mbango Etone
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Medal record Women's Athletics Competitor for Cameroon
Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens Triple jump Gold 2008 Beijing Triple jump World Championships Silver 2001 Edmonton Triple jump Silver 2003 Paris Triple jump Françoise Mbango Etone (born April 14, 1976) is a female track and field athlete, competing internationally for France, formerly of the Cameroon.[1] She was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She was born in Yaoundé.
She is also a talented long jumper who finished second at the African Championships in 1999 (6.55 m). She is the first athlete representing Cameroon to win medals at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002.
During the 2005-06 academic year, she lived in New York City on a scholarship to attend St. John’s University in Queens. The scholarship was made possible through the collaboration of the American electricity company AES Sonel along with US Ambassador to Cameroon, Niels Marquardt. She selected St. John’s University for study (along with her younger sister, Berthe) because of the school’s support of cultural programs in Cameroon.
References
- ^ Unknown, Unknown (2010-11-19). "Transfers of Allegiance". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/transfer/index.html. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- IAAF profile for Françoise Mbango Etone
Olympic Champions in Women's Triple Jump - 1996: Inessa Kravets (UKR)
- 2000: Tereza Marinova (BUL)
- 2004: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)
- 2008: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)
1995: Rosa Collins-Okah (NGR) • 1999: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) • 2003: Kéné Ndoye (SEN) • 2007: Yamilé Aldama (SUD) • 2011: Baya Rahouli (ALG)
1992: Li Huirong (CHN) • 1994: Anna Biryukova (RUS) • 1998: Olga Vasdeki (GRE) • 2002: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) • 2006: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) • 2010: Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
World Best Year Performance in Women's Triple Jump 1986: Esmeralda García (BRA) • 1987 – 1988: Li Huirong (CHN) • 1989: Galina Chistyakova (URS) • 1990: Li Huirong (CHN) • 1991: Inessa Kravets (URS) • 1992: Galina Chistyakova (RUS) • 1993: Anna Biryukova (RUS) • 1994: Sofiya Bozhanova (BUL) • 1995 – 1996: Inessa Kravets (UKR) • 1997: Šárka Kašpárková (CZE) • 1998: Iva Prandzheva (BUL) • 1999: Paraskevi Tsiamita (GRE) • 2000 – 2001: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) • 2002: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) • 2003: Yamilé Aldama (CUB) • 2004: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) • 2005: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) and Trecia-Kaye Smith (JAM) • 2006: Anna Pyatykh (RUS) • 2007: Yargelis Savigne (CUB) • 2008: Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) • 2009: Nadezhda Alekhina (RUS)) • 2010: Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
Categories:- 1976 births
- Living people
- French athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of France
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Triple jumpers
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- African athletics biography stubs
- Cameroonian sportspeople stubs
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