Myriam Soumaré

Myriam Soumaré
Myriam Soumaré in Moscow 2013
nation	France
birthday	29th October 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Paris , France
size	167 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m
Best performance	11.03 s 22.11 s
society	AA Pays de France Athlé 95
Trainer	Olivier Darnal, Hubert Rochard
status	resigned
End of career	February 24, 2016
Medal table
European championships 1 × 3 × 3 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Mediterranean Games 1 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships gold Barcelona 2010 200 m silver Barcelona 2010 4 × 100 m bronze Barcelona 2010 100 m bronze Helsinki 2012 200 m silver Zurich 2014 100 m silver Zurich 2014 4 × 100 m bronze Zurich 2014 200 m  European Indoor Championships silver Gothenburg 2013 60 m  Mediterranean Games gold Pescara 2009 4 × 100 m silver Pescara 2009 100 m  U23 European Championships bronze Debrecen 2007 100 m
last change: 11/30/2014

Myriam Soumaré (born October 29, 1986 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris ) is a former French athlete who specializes in sprinting .

Life

In 2008 Myriam Soumaré became French champion over 200 meters in the hall . In the 4 x 100 meter relay of the Olympic Games in Beijing , she started with the French team. The season in the cast Soumaré, Muriel Hurtis-Houairi , Lina Jacques-Sébastien and Carima Louami , however, made a mistake in the run-up, so that she was disqualified.

Myriam Soumaré at the 2010 European Championships

In 2009 Soumaré became French champion over 100 meters . At the World Championships in Berlin , she reached the quarter-finals over the same distance. In 2010 she was French champion in the hall over 60 meters and over the same distance eighth at the World Indoor Championships in Doha . She achieved her international breakthrough at the European Championships in Barcelona : She won bronze over 100, gold over 200 meters and silver with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2012 Soumaré won the bronze medal over 200 meters at the European Championships in Helsinki. At the Olympic Games in London, she was seventh. In March 2013 she won the bronze medal in the 60-meter run at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden .

After a year off (2015), Soumaré surprisingly announced her retirement from professional sport in February 2016 at the age of 29. But she left a return open.

Myriam Soumaré is 1.67 m tall and weighs 57 kg. She is trained by Darnal Olivier and starts for the Association Amicale du Pays de France Athlétique 95. The family roots of the trained nanny, who only started athletics at the age of 18, are in Mauritania .

Personal bests

• 100 m: 11.03 s, July 18, 2014, Monaco
  • 60 m (hall): 7.07 s, March 3, 2013, Gothenburg
• 200 m: 22.11 s, September 5, 2014, Brussels
  • 200 m (hall): 22.87 s, February 7, 2013, Eaubonne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Athletisme/Actualites/Myriam-soumare-annonce-sa-retraite/637148
2. ↑ Le Nouvel Observateur : Athlétisme: Myriam Soumaré, le turbo en dilettante  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  July 31, 2010

Web links

Commons : Myriam Soumaré  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Myriam Soumare in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the FFA
• Myriam Soumaré in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )