Malaika Mihambo

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Malaika Mihambo athletics

Malaika Mihambo
Malaika Mihambo at her first
World Championships in Moscow (2013)

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 3rd February 1994 (age 27)
place of birth Heidelberg ,  Germany
size 171 cm
Weight 58 kg
job Political scientist
Career
discipline Long jump , sprint
Best performance 7.30 m (long jump)
11.21 s ( 100 m )
society LG Kurpfalz
(parent club TSV Oftersheim )
Trainer Ulrich Knapp, before: Ralf Weber
National squad since 2013
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
U23 European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U20 European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 5 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
German indoor championships 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Tokyo 2020 7.00 m
World Athletics logo World championships
gold Doha 2019 7.30 m
EAA logo European championships
bronze Amsterdam 2016 6.65 m
gold Berlin 2018 6.75 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
gold Tallinn 2015 6.73 m
EAA logo U20 European Championships
gold Rieti 2013 6.70 m
DLV logo German championships
bronze Ulm 2014 6.60 m
gold Kassel 2016 6.72 m
bronze Erfurt 2017 6.62 m
gold Nuremberg 2018 6.72 m
bronze Berlin 2019 100 m: 11.21 s
gold Berlin 2019 7.16 m
gold Braunschweig 2020 6.71 m
gold Braunschweig 2021 6.62 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
gold Dortmund 2018 6.68 m
gold Leipzig 2019 6.72 m
gold Leipzig 2020 6.77 m
silver Leipzig 2020 60 m: 7.22 s
gold Dortmund 2021 6.70 m
last change: August 3, 2021

Malaika Mihambo (born  February 3, 1994 in Heidelberg ) is a German athlete . In addition to her main discipline, the long jump , she also competes in the sprint . In the long jump she became world champion in 2019 and Olympic champion in 2021.

Life

Mihambos father is from the to Tanzania belonging Zanzibar , her mother from Germany. Her first name Malaika means "angel" in Swahili . Mihambo attended the International Comprehensive School Heidelberg and passed her Abitur there in 2012 . In the fall semester of 2012/13, she began studying political science at the University of Mannheim , which she successfully completed in 2016, supported by the university's sports scholarship program . Since April 2019 Mihambo has been studying environmental sciences in the postgraduate master’s program at the Distance University in Hagen and is working on a social project for children.

Athletic career

youth

After initially gaining experience in ballet , gymnastics and judo , Mihambo began athletics at the age of eight .

At the national level, Mihambo first appeared at the German student all-around and block championships in August 2008 in Rhede , where she took second place in the W14 age group in the sprint / jump block, which consists of five individual disciplines. The following year she reached third place in the heptathlon in the W15 age group at the same championships in Bad Oeynhausen ; together with Carina Frey and Marie Kias Mihambo won the team competition in the heptathlon. In the same year, with Carina Frey, Chantal Berg and Marie Kias, she improved the best German student performance in the 4 x 100 meter relay of the LG Kurpfalz to 47.52 seconds.

In the long jump she exceeded the width of six meters (6.17 m) for the first time at the German B youth all-around indoor championships in Frankfurt am Main in January 2010 and was runner-up in the pentathlon with 3891 points. A year later she won the long jump of the female B-youth with 6.40 m at the German Youth Championships in Jena . In February 2012 she was German youth champion in Sindelfingen with 6.45 m in the hall and in June 2012 she jumped at the Bauhaus -Junior gala in Mannheim - with irregular 3.6  m / s tail wind - 6.50 m wide. At the Junior World Championships in 2012 , she was eliminated in qualification.

2018 DM athletics

2013 and 2014

In May 2013, now as an A-youth , she reached the cosinus Kurpfalz Gala in Weinheim - at an equally irregular 2.8 m / s - 6.80 m, a greater width than Michelle Weitzel , the winner among the adults. At the European Junior Championships in Rieti at the end of July 2013, she won the gold medal with 6.70 m. A week later she won the long jump title at the German A youth championships in Rostock with 6.60 m. She was then nominated as the youngest team member for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow . There she finished 18th with 6.49 m. In January 2014 she was voted Youth Athlete of the Year 2013.

At the end of May 2014 she again jumped a new personal best of 6.81 m at the cosinus Kurpfalz Gala , which exceeded the qualification standard for the European Championships in Zurich in August. A week later she climbed to 6.88 m when she won the Regensburger Sparkassen-Gala, and at the European Team Championship in Braunschweig on June 22, she improved to 6.90 m, with which she won the long jump competition. On July 27, 2014 Mihambo won the bronze medal behind Melanie Bauschke and Sosthene Moguenara at the German Championships in Ulm with a width of 6.60 m . Two weeks later, she narrowly missed a medal at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich . The Russian Darja Klischina , who is also 6.65 m wide , won the bronze medal due to a better second-best jump, Mihambo took fourth place.

2015 and 2016

After the start of the season in May 2015 and winning the German team championship, Mihambo finished fourth at the Diamond League meeting in Rome at the beginning of June and exceeded the required world championship norm with 6.79 m. In the same month, he won the German U-23 championship. On July 12th, Mihambo won the U23 European Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, with a width of 6.73 m, ahead of Jazmin Sawyers and Alina Rotaru , but only finished ninth two weeks later at the German Championships . At the end of July, Mihambo was nominated as part of the 66-strong German squad for the World Championships in Beijing . There she reached the final with a new season best of 6.84 m with her first jump in qualification, in which she finished sixth with 6.79 m.

After a bilateral patellar tendon irritation in December 2015 , Mihambo was only able to start the season at the beginning of May 2016 at the training camp in Belek, Turkey . In a market characterized by strong prevailing winds competition at the German Championships in Kassel Mihambo was on June 18, with a width of 6.72 m for the first time German champion before Alexandra Wester and Maryse Luzolo , on grounds of illegal tailwind but the winner's distance was not as the fulfillment of the DLV recognized qualification standard (6.70 m) for the Olympic Games . In qualifying for the European Championships in Amsterdam on July 7, she reached the national Olympic standard with a width of 6.76 m and won the bronze medal the following day with 6.65 m behind Ivana Španović and Jazmin Sawyers . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Mihambo increased her personal best to 6.95 m, finishing fourth in the long jump final.

2017 and 2018

At the German Championships 2017 in Erfurt , Mihambo took third place. In 2018 she won the title at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund . At the end of February 2018 she was invited to the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham based on the ranking process of the IAAF World Athletics Association , because although she missed the official norm by 4 centimeters with a season best of 6.72 m, she was fourth in the world. Mihambo finished the indoor world championships in fifth place with 6.64 m. In Nuremberg she became German champion . On August 11, 2018, she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Berlin with a width of 6.75 m. At the Continental Cup in Ostrava , Mihambo took second place with the European team, to which she contributed with a third place in the individual.

2019

Malaika Mihambo at the NDR Talk Show (2019)
Mihambo entering the city of Heidelberg's Golden Book in the presence of Mayor Eckart Würzner (left) (2021)
Mihambo's entry in the Golden Book of Heidelberg (2021)

After Mihambo had already set the standard for the European Indoor Championships at the first competition of the year in Sindelfingen , she won the ISTAF Indoor in Berlin on February 1st with a width of 6.99 m and improved her personal indoor best by 27 centimeters. Two weeks later she defended her title from the previous year at the German Indoor Championships with 6.72 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow she finished fourth with 6.83 m. On June 6, she won the Diamond League meeting Golden Gala in Rome with a new personal best jump of 7.07 m. For the first time since youth, she joined in 2019 as a sprinter in appearance and won at the German Championships third place in the 100 -Meter barrel . The time achieved there of 11.21 s was below the qualification standard for the World Championships in Doha . In the long jump, Mihambo defended her German championship title with a new personal best of 7.16 m. It was also the new world record for the year and the third best distance in German long jump history.

In October she was able to increase her best performance in the long jump at the World Championships in Doha to 7.30 m and thus became world champion. With this distance she is the twelfth best long jumper of all time and the second best German athlete, only Heike Drechsler jumped 7.48 m further than Mihambo. According to the IAAF points rating, Mihambo's 7.30 meter jump was the best cross-discipline women's performance at the World Championships in Doha. On December 15, 2019, Mihambo was honored as Germany's Sportswoman of the Year 2019 in Baden-Baden .

2020 and 2021

On February 14th, Mihambo jumped the 7-meter mark in the hall for the first time at the ISTAF Indoor in Berlin and set a personal best in the hall with 7.07 m. At the end of the year she was again named Germany's Sportswoman of the Year .

On August 2, 2021, Mihambo won the long jump competition at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a final jump of 7.00 m .

On December 19, 2021, Mihambo was named Sportswoman of the Year for the third time .

Club affiliations and trainers

Mihambo starts for TSV Oftersheim in the LG Kurpfalz and has been trained by Ralf Weber since she was eleven. In 2020 Weber ended the collaboration for personal reasons and Mihambo announced that he would train in the USA with Carl Lewis (long jump) and Leroy Burrell (sprint) in the future . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , she was initially unable to implement this plan and has been trained by national coach Ulrich Knapp since June 2020.

Yoga interest

Mihambo's closeness to yoga became known when she meditated during breaks at competitions. In an interview with Yoga Journal , she reported on the background. She said that her mother practiced yoga and meditation and had traveled to India . Therefore, she has been familiar with these topics since childhood, but has only been practicing regularly in one form or another since 2018. Meditation opened up a new space for her, the space to herself. Physical yoga exercises were also part of her program, for example in preparation for strenuous training, and she also preferred a vegetarian and vegan diet and tried to be responsible for the environment.

She does not follow any specific yoga direction, but instead uses Zen meditations, mantras , breathing techniques, visualizations or a short inner focus depending on the situation . During a competition, one should be careful not to allow negative streams of thought to carry you away. When she won the gold medal in Tokyo, it was first and foremost important to her to be able to master her mind and her body. The gold actually stands for the inner path that she has taken.

Awards

statistics

Personal best

open air
  • Long jump: 7.30 m (−0.8 m / s) , October 6, 2019 in Doha
  • 100 meters: 11.21 s (+0.6 m / s) , June 30, 2019 in Mannheim
Hall
  • Long jump: 7.07 m, February 14, 2020 in Berlin
  • 60 meters: 7.22 s, February 22, 2020 in Leipzig

Results of selected competitions

event 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Olympic games 4. (6.95 m) Gold (7.00 m)
World championships 18. (6.49 m) 6th (6.79 m) - Gold (7.30 m)
Indoor world championships - - 5th (6.64 m)
United KingdomUnited KingdomDiamond League in Birmingham 1. (6.96 m) -
BelgiumBelgiumDiamond League in Brussels - 4. (6.61 m) 1. (7.03 m)
SwitzerlandSwitzerlandDiamond League in Lausanne - - - - 1. (6.90 m)
United KingdomUnited KingdomDiamond League in London - - - 1. (7.02 m)
ItalyItalyDiamond League in Rome - 4th (6.79 m) 1. (7.07 m)
SwedenSwedenDiamond League in Stockholm - 6. (6.50 m) - 2. (6.85 m)
SwitzerlandSwitzerlandDiamond League in Zurich - 9. (6.37 m) - -
European championships 4. (6.65 m) Bronze (6.65 m) Gold (6.75 m)
European Indoor Championships - - - 4. (6.83 m) Silver (6.88 m)
European team championship - 1st (6.90 m)
gold (team) 		- - 1. (7.11 m)
Silver (team)
German championships 4. (6.50 m) Bronze (6.60 m) 9. (6.22 m) Gold (6.72 m) Bronze (6.62 m) Gold (6.72 m) Gold (7.16 m) Gold (6.71 m) Gold (6.62 m)
German indoor championships - - - - - Gold (6.68 m) Gold (6.72 m) Gold (6.77 m) Gold (6.70 m)
U23 European Championships - Gold (6.73 m) -
U20 European Championships Gold (6.70 m) -

Performance development

year Season bests (outdoor)
2010 5.96 m ( Moscow )
2011 6.40 m ( Jena )
2012 6.32 m ( Mannheim )
2013 6.70 m (Junior European Championships in Rieti )
2014 6.90 m (European team championship in Braunschweig )
2015 6.84 m (World Championships in Beijing )
2016 6.95 m (Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro )
2017 6.62 m (German championships in Erfurt )
2018 6.99 m ( Weinheim )
2019 7.30 m (World Championships in Doha ) - WL
2020 7.03 m ( Dessau ) - WL
2021 7.00 m (Olympic Games in Tokyo )

Web links

Commons : Malaika Mihambo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mihambo, Malaika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long jumper
BIRTH DATE 3rd February 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg , Germany