Jessie Maduka

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Jessie Maduka athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 23rd April 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size 184 cm
Weight 70 kg
job Student ( psychology )
Career
discipline Triple jump
Best performance Hall : 13.81 m; Open air : 13.95 m
society ART Düsseldorf ,
first club: Düsseldorfer SC 99
Trainer Rob Jarvis, before: Ralf Jaros , Sven
Timmermann; first trainer: Wolfgang Vander
status active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
German indoor championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
silver 2012 Barcelona 4 × 100 m
DLV logo German championships
bronze 2018 Nuremberg 13.74 m
silver 2020 Braunschweig 13.57 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
silver 2018 Dortmund 13.81 m
bronze 2020 Leipzig 13.40 m
last change: August 9, 2020

Jessie Maduka (born April 23, 1996 in Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete who specializes in the triple jump and also takes part in sprint competitions.

career path

With a scholarship, Jessie Maduka studied psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from September 2014 until mid-2018. She is now at the German Sport University Cologne .

Athletic careers

At the age of nine Maduka came to Düsseldorfer SC 99 and proved to be a talented all-rounder. At the age of 14, she switched to ART Düsseldorf , where she specialized in sprint and jumping disciplines.

15-year Maduka had 2011 premiere at the German Youth Championships and each took in the U18 bronze in long jump and triple jump and in the 100-meter dash .

In 2012, at the age of 16, she was U20 vice world champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay .

Further titles and finals followed in the older age groups.

In 2018 Maduka was runner-up in the active German indoor triple jump and won bronze at the NCAA indoor championships in College Station ( Texas ) for the UCLA starting with her personal best of 13.81 m. She won bronze at the German championships .

In 2019 Maduka had to cancel the indoor season due to a foot injury. At the end of May she won the German University Championships in the triple jump and came in 5th place in the 100-meter run . At the German championships Maduka took 6th place.

In 2020 she was third with a personal season best at the German Indoor Championships with 13.40 m and German runner-up with 13.57 m .

Maduka was in the junior squad 1 U23 of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and is now in the perspective squad .

Club affiliations

Jessie Maduka starts for ART Düsseldorf . Their first club was the Düsseldorfer SC 99 .

Top performances

(As of August 9, 2020)

Hall
  • 60 m : 7.45 s ( Leipzig , February 22, 2020)
  • Long jump: 6.27 m ( Albuquerque , February 13, 2015)
  • Triple jump: 13.81 m ( Dortmund , February 17, 2018)
  • 4 × 200 m: 1: 38.59 min, ( Ancona , March 2, 2013)
open air

Sporting successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Jessie Maduka  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jessie Maduka: “I'll be back!” , Local, on: nrz.de, from August 14, 2014, accessed March 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Bronze for Jessie Maduka - Michael Norman runs indoor world record , NCAA Championships, on: Leichtathletik.de, from March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Jessie Maduka celebrates two home wins in the sprint , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from December 16, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Maduka, Jessie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf