KORA Salome

Switzerland

Athletics

Date of Birth: 8 Jun 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Place of birth: SANKT GALLEN

Birth Country:

Switzerland

Place of residence : SANKT GALLEN

Residence Country:

Switzerland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 100m
	Women's 4 x 100m Relay SUI Switzerland	4

Schedule

Change

Location	Event	Status
Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (43.12)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (11.48)	4th (42.18)
2017	London, GBR	SF (11.31)	5th (42.51)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2021	Chorzow, POL	7th (DQ)

European Championships

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2018	Berlin, GER	SF (11.36)	4th (42.30)

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

Year	100m
2019	1 x 8th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
8	2019	100m	Lausanne, SUI	11.29

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2018	4 x 100m Relay	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	43.35
18	2018	100m	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	11.67

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

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Pedagogy, Switzerland

Languages spoken:

English, French, German

Club name:

LC Bruhl [Sankt Gallen, SUI]

Coach:

Laurent Meuwly [national], SUI; Christian Gutgsell [personal], SUI

Injuries:

She sustained a tendon injury in her foot in mid-2018 which she continued to run on, aggravating the problem. She recovered in early 2019. (aargauerzeitung.ch, 05 Jul 2019)

She suffered a foot injury in 2016 that meant she required crutches for several weeks, and she had to cut short her season in June that year. (nzz.ch, 07 Jan 2019)

Start:

She took up athletics at age 12 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She stopped for several years before returning to the sport at age 17. (20min.ch, 25 Jul 2016)

Reason:

"When I was at age 12 I decided that I should take up a sport, and so I visited an athletics club. However, I struggled with the fact that I had to train and compete in all disciplines. I couldn't get used to throwing and endurance, and I stopped pretty quickly. For a few years I got quite lazy, until my father asked me when I was at age 17 to do something useful with my free time. So I decided to join the LC Bruhl athletics sprint group. I liked that very much and every year I was more motivated to invest more in training. It was worth it." (salome-kora.ch, 01 Dec 2019; tagblatt.ch, 09 Dec 2019)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 11 Apr 2020)

Award:

In 2019 she was part of the women's 4x100m relay team that won Team of the Year at the Swiss Sports Awards. (carl-f-bucherer.com, 18 Dec 2019)

General Interest

General
EARLY DAYS
She was born in Switzerland but spent much of her childhood in Benin, where her parents moved for work. She returned to Switzerland at age 11. "When I was at age six, I moved with my family to Benin, where my parents set up a humanitarian project. We lived in the bush for five years and lived a very different life than in Switzerland. I like to remember the time when I always ran barefoot through the bushes, where I could pick mangoes straight from the tree and one of my leisure activities was chasing chickens. We didn't have a TV. Because of that, I missed children's films. I realise that when my friends tell me about childhood Disney films. I went to school for the first time in Switzerland. I still remember that it was important to be as cool as possible. It was a completely new experience for me. In Benin everything was much more spontaneous, you just walked in with neighbours or friends, ate lunch together, or helped out in the household." (salome-kora.ch, 01 Dec 2019; tagblatt.ch, 09 Dec 2019)

FUTURE PLANS
She studied for a master's degree at the University of Education St. Gallen and says she hopes to work as a teacher. (salome-kora.ch, 01 Dec 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/salome.kora
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/salomekora100
https://instagram.com/salomekora
Athlete Website: http://salome-kora.ch

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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