Irène Tiendrébéogo gained her first international experience in 1994 when she won the silver medal at the Junior African Championships in Algiers with a skipped 1.65 m, as well as at the Junior African Championships the following year in Bouaké with 1.73 m. She then took part in the World Championships in Gothenburg , but retired there with 1.80 m in qualification. She also took part in the Africa Games in Harare for the first time , where she won the silver medal behind the South African Hestrie Storbeck with a height of 1.75 m . In 1996 she won the African Championships in Yaoundé with 1.84 m and thus qualified for the Olympic Games in Atlanta , where she did not reach the final with 1.80 m . The following year she did not manage to qualify at the World Championships in Athens , but then she won the bronze medal behind the Belgian Sabrina De Leeuw and Nathalie Belfort , who won for Québec, at the Francophonie Games in Antananarivo with a jump of 1.82 m the start went. In 1998 she won the silver medal behind the South African Storbeck at the African Championships in Dakar with 1.84 m and the following year she had to admit defeat to the South African at the African Games in Johannesburg with 1.85 m. Before that, she set a new national record in Niort with 1.94 m and also took part in the World Championships in Seville , where she did not reach the final with 1.89 m.
From 2001 Tiendrébéogo started for Monaco and finished sixth in the 200-meter run at the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) in San Marino in 25.40 s and two years later she was at the GSSE in Marsa in 57, 69 s Fifth in the 400-meter run and reached fourth place in the Monegasque 4-by-400-meter relay in 3: 57.20 minutes. With that she ended her career as a track and field athlete at the age of 27.
Personal best
200 meters: 25.40 s (+2.5 m / s), June 2, 2001 in San Marino
Burkina Faso
