Benjamin Compaoré
Benjamin Compaoré 
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| birthday | 5th August 1987 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Bar-le-Duc , France | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 189 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 17.48 m (−0.1 m / s) | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | Strasbourg Agglomération Athlétisme | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Jean-Hervé Stievenard | ||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: March 19, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||
Benjamin Compaoré (born August 5, 1987 in Bar-le-Duc ) is a French athlete who specializes in the triple jump .
Athletic career
Compaoré, son of a Burkinabe and a French woman, was the first French junior champion in the triple jump in 2004 and achieved numerous other podium finishes in the youth and junior division at national level in the following years. He gained his first international experience at the Junior European Championships 2005 in Kaunas, which he finished in fifth place. At the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006 , he won the gold medal with a personal best of 16.61 m. His first appearance at international championships in the active class he completed at the European Indoor Championships 2007 in Birmingham, where he missed the final as 13th of the qualification. In 2008 he cracked the 17-meter mark for the first time in Strasbourg with a jump of 17.05 m.
At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona Compaoré finished fifth with 16.99 m, and at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu he was eighth with 17.17 m. In 2012 he reached sixth place at both the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and the Olympic Games in London . At the European Indoor Championships 2013 in Gothenburg, he surprisingly dropped out of the qualification. Due to persistent problems with his left ankle, he ended the season early in July and decided not to take part in the World Championships in Moscow .
Compaoré celebrated its most significant international success to date at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich, when he won the gold medal with a new personal best of 17.46 m. He achieved a further increase to 17.48 m in September when he won the Continental Cup in Marrakech .
At the beginning of February 2015, Compaoré pulled a muscle strain in his left thigh, because of which he had to take a training break of several weeks and forego the planned participation in the European Indoor Championships in Prague . In August he reached the finals at the World Championships in Beijing , but only finished 12th there with a width of 16.63 m.
At the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 2016 , he won the bronze medal behind the Chinese Dong Bin and the German Max Hess with a width of 17.09 m . At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he finished tenth with 16.54 m.
Web links
- Benjamin Compaoré in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Benjamin Compaoré in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait by Benjamin Compaoré on athle.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chris Turner: World Junior Champs, Day 6 - PM session summary ( English ) IAAF. August 20, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ Benjamin Compaoré: "Je me suis senti léger" ( French ) marathon.fr. June 6, 2009. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ↑ Fabien Rouschop: Triple saut seasonal terminée pour Benjamin Compaoré ( French ) L'Alsace. July 14, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ↑ Compaoré, champion au triple saut ( French ) L'Équipe. August 15, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ Benjamin Compaoré blessé et forfait pour la Saison hivernale ( French ) L'Équipe. February 6, 2015. Accessed March 20, 2016.
- ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Report: men's triple jump final - IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 ( English ) IAAF. March 20, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Compaoré, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bar-le-Duc |