THIAM Nafissatou

Olympic Games

Year	Location	High Jump	Heptathlon
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Qual. (DNS)	1st (6810)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2019	Doha, QAT	2nd (6677)
2017	London, GBR	1st (6784)
2015	Beijing, CHN	11th (6298)
2013	Moscow, RUS	14th (6070)

European Championships

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2018	Berlin, GER	1st (6816)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	High Jump	Long Jump
2019	1 x 3rd	1 x 1st
2018	1 x 2nd	-
2017	1 x 4th	-

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	Long Jump	Birmingham, GBR	6.86
2	2018	High Jump	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	1.97
3	2019	High Jump	Brussels, BEL	1.95
4	2017	High Jump	Brussels, BEL	1.88

World Combined Events Challenge

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Heptathlon	2019	Talence, FRA	6819
1	Heptathlon	2018	Berlin, GER	6816
1	Heptathlon	2018	Gotzis, AUT	6806
1	Heptathlon	2017	London, GBR	6784
1	Heptathlon	2017	Gotzis, AUT	7013
2	Heptathlon	2019	Doha, QAT	6677

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Nafi (Instagram profile, 07 Apr 2020)

Athlete, Model, Student

Psychology

English, French

Royal Football Club Liege Athletisme [RFCL] [Belgium]

Roger Lespagnard [personal], BEL

An Achilles tendon injury forced her to miss the 2020 Diamond League meeting in Brussels, Belgium. (worldathletics.org, 27 Aug 2020)

In June 2018 she sustained an elbow injury and struggled with the injury throughout the rest of the 2019 season. (independent.co.uk, 25 Mar 2020; lesoir.be, 23 Jun 2019)

A calf injury ruled her out of competing at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (bbc.co.uk, 10 Feb 2019)

She won a gold medal in heptathlon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, despite suffering from an elbow ligament injury that troubled her during the javelin discipline. (ONS, 14 Aug 2016)

In 2009 she injured the cruciate ligament in her knee after a fall during the hurdles. She was unable to run for about five months. (IAAF, 05 Sep 2016)

She took up athletics at age seven, and began multi-event competitions at age nine. (IAAF, 05 Sep 2016)

To surpass the world record score [7,291 points] of US athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the heptathlon. (independent.co.uk, 27 Sep 2019)

Winning gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 2017 World Championships and 2018 European Championships. (olympic.org, 03 Aug 2019)

Her mother. (olympic.org, 03 Aug 2019)

"One chance is all you need." [US sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens] (Instagram profile, 22 Feb 2016)

She was named European Athletics [EA] Athlete of the Month for March 2020. She previously won the award in May 2017 and August 2019. (kxan36news.com, 07 Apr 2020)

She received the Golden Spike Award for Belgian Athletics Female Athlete of the Year in seven consecutive years from 2013 to 2019. (rtc.be, 16 Nov 2019; xinhuanet.com, 22 Oct 2018; lbfa.be, 20 Oct 2018; wafelsportsmanagement.com, 24 Nov 2014, 04 Dec 2015)

She was named International Association of Athletics Federations [IAAF] World Female Athlete of the Year in 2017. (nafithiam.com, 27 May 2018)

She was named Belgian Sportswoman of the Year in 2014, 2016 and 2017. (sporza.be, 21 Dec 2019)

She was named 2012 Belgian Athletics Rising Star of the Year. (wafelsportsmanagement.com, 05 Dec 2013)