Françoise Mbango Etone

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Françoise Mbango Etone
Full name	Françoise Mbango Etone
nation	Cameroon
birthday	April 14, 1976
place of birth	Yaoundé ,  Cameroon
size	172 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump , long jump
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games gold 2004 Athens Triple jump gold 2008 Beijing Triple jump  World championships silver 2001 Edmonton Triple jump silver 2003 Paris Triple jump  Indoor world championships silver 2003 Birmingham Triple jump  Commonwealth Games silver 1998 Kuala Lumpur Triple jump silver 2002 Manchester Triple jump  Africa Games gold 1999 Johannesburg Triple jump silver 1999 Johannesburg Long jump  African Championships bronze 1996 Yaoundé Triple jump silver 1998 Dakar Triple jump silver 2000 Algiers Triple jump gold 2002 Radès Triple jump gold 2002 Radès Long jump gold 2008 Addis Ababa Triple jump  Games of the Francophonie silver 2001 Ottawa-Hull Triple jump silver 2001 Ottawa-Hull Long jump
last change: April 14, 2015

Françoise Mbango Etone (born April 14, 1976 in Yaoundé ) is a Cameroonian triple jumper and Olympic champion .

biography

During her school years she tried out several sports, and played for a while soccer . At the age of 16 she became the Cameroonian high jump champion and came second the following year. On the advice of her trainer, she eventually focused on the triple jump. At the African Championships in Cameroon in 1996, she won the bronze medal. In 1998 she came second at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. In the same year she improved the African record to 14.02 m, but lost it after only one week.

With a width of 14.70 m, she won back the African record in 1999 and also set a new national record in the long jump with 6.55 m . At the 1999 World Championships , she did not qualify in the triple jump (14.12 m). In 2000 she was second again at the African Championships in Algiers . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , she was able to qualify for the final, but ended up only in tenth place. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , she was second behind the Russian Tatiana Lebedewa . At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 , she was again second. In the same year she improved the African record to 14.95 m at the African championships in the Tunisian city of Radès and also won the long jump competition.

Outside Africa, her series of second places continued, for example at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Manchester (behind Ashia Hansen ) and the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis (behind Lebedewa), where she improved her African record to 15.05 m.

Shortly before the 2004 Olympic Games , she lost her African record to Yamilé Aldama , who comes from Cuba and is now starting for Sudan . In the Olympic final in Athens she improved and jumped 15,30 m. Not only did she regain her record, but she also became the first ever Cameroonian Olympic champion, as well as the first African woman to win anything other than a running competition. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , she won the gold medal with a new personal best of 15.39 m.

Françoise Mbango Etone is 1.72 m tall and has a competition weight of 60 kg.

Personal best

• 100 m : 12.00 s (+0.5 m / s), July 21, 2004 in Reims
• Long jump: 6.55 m (+1.3 m / s), September 16, 1999 in Johannesburg
• Triple jump: 15.39 m (+0.5 m / s), August 17, 2008 in Beijing

Web links

• Françoise Mbango Etone in the database of World Athletics (English)