Francine Niyonsaba

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Francine Niyonsaba athletics

Francine Niyonsaba (2016)
Francine Niyonsaba at the Rio 2016 Olympics

nation BurundiBurundi Burundi
birthday 5th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Nkanda Bweru , Burundi
size 161 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline 800 m
Trainer Mark Rowland
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor world championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
African Championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 800 m
IAAF logo World championships
silver London 2017 800 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
gold Portland 2016 800 m
gold Birmingham 2018 800 m
 African Championships
gold Porto-Novo 2012 800 m
silver Asaba 2018 800 m
last change: August 5, 2018

Francine Niyonsaba (born May 5, 1993 in Nkanda Bweru ) is a Burundian athlete .

Athletic career

The 1.61-meter-tall student from the high school in Royial Province, who weighed 56 kg in competition in 2012, is being trained by the Burundian national coach Nizigama Salvator . The gold medalist at the 2012 African Championships in Porto-Novo , where she set a new Burundian record with a time of 1: 59.11 minutes, secured Burundi only the second African Championships in the country's history after Charles Nkazamyampi in 1992. On July 20, 2012, she improved the Burundian 800-meter record again when she crossed the finish line in 1: 58.68 minutes at the Diamond League event Herculis in Monaco.

She was in the six-man squad for the Burundian team for the 2012 Olympic Games . In London she started the 800-meter run, improved the national record to 1: 58.67 min in the semifinals and finished seventh in the Olympic final with a time of 1: 59.63 min. Due to the subsequent disqualification of the Russian Jelena Arshakova for doping, she later moved up to sixth place.

On September 7, 2012, Niyonsaba increased her best performance at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels to 1: 56.59 min

At the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland , Niyonsaba achieved the world title with a time of 2: 00.1 minutes. Francine Niyonsaba improved her personal best and the new Burundian record at the Diamond League event Herculis in Monaco to 1: 56.24 min. Also in 2016, she was able to achieve a time of 1:56, at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . 49 minutes to win the silver medal, which was the second Olympic medal for Burundi.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Niyonsiba took the silver medal behind the South African Caster Semenya . She also won the Diamond League meetings in Stockholm and Lausanne this season . At the Herculis in Monaco, she increased her personal best to 1: 55.47 min.

In 2018 Niyonsaba successfully defended her 800-meter title at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham . At the African Championships in Asaba , she was second.

Web links

Commons : Francine Niyonsaba  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ profile on www.all-athletics.com , accessed on August 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Burundian teen Niyonsaba takes dramatic 800m title as Nigeria top medal table in Porto-Novo - African champs, Day 5 ( Memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English) at iaaf.org from July 2, 2012, accessed on March 13, 2012 August 2012
  3. ↑ Results on diamondleague.com ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diamondleague-monaco.com
  4. ↑ profile on diamondleague.com , accessed on August 13, 2012
  5. ↑ result of the semi-finals on www.london2012.com
  6. ^ Matthias Heidrich: Russia: A World Cup host in the doping swamp . sportschau.de. August 7, 2013. Archived from the original on February 10, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sportschau.ndr.de
  7. ↑ Profile on www.london2012.com ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.london2012.com
  8. ↑ Francine Niyonsaba in the World Athletics database , accessed March 30, 2014
  9. ↑ REPORT: WOMEN'S 800M FINAL - IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS PORTLAND 2016. In: iaaf.org. March 20, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  10. ^ Monaco: Semenya Breaks Series Record To Win 800m. In: diamondleague.com. July 16, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  11. ↑ FRANCINE NIYONSABA. In: olympic.org. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Niyonsaba, Francine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burundian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Nkanda Bweru , Burundi