Nafissatou Thiam

Nafissatou Thiam
Thiam 2018 in Götzis
nation	Belgium
birthday	19th August 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Brussels ,  Belgium
size	184 cm
Weight	69 kg
job	studies geography
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
Best performance	7013 points
society	RFC Liege
Trainer	Roger Lespagnard
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 Heptathlon  World championships gold London 2017 Heptathlon silver Doha 2019 Heptathlon  European championships bronze Zurich 2014 Heptathlon gold Berlin 2018 Heptathlon  European Indoor Championships gold Belgrade 2017 Pentathlon silver Prague 2015 Pentathlon  U23 European Championships silver Tallinn 2015 high jump  Junior European Championships gold Rieti 2013 Heptathlon
last change: October 11, 2019

Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (born August 19, 1994 in Brussels ) is a Belgian heptathlete .

Life

Thiam is the daughter of a Belgian woman and a Senegalese father. She is training to be an occupational therapist .

Athletic career

Nafissatou Thiam began her sports career at the age of seven. In the Youth World Championships 2011 in Lille it was with 5366 points fourth in the heptathlon . The following year she was 14th in the heptathlon at the Junior World Championships.

On February 3, 2013, Thiam set a new junior indoor world record in pentathlon in Gent with 4558 points . She was the first Belgian athlete to ever set a world record. In March, however, the record was revoked because Thiam faced the mandatory doping test too late.

On July 18, 2013, Thiam won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2013 Junior European Championships with a new Belgian record of 6298 points. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow she was 14th in the heptathlon.

At the 2014 Indoor World Championships in Sopot , she started in the high jump and was eighth with a jump of 1.90 m. In the same year she increased her best performance in the heptathlon at the all- around meeting Götzis to 6508 points. At the European Championships in Zurich she won the bronze medal with 6423 points. With a performance of 1.97 m in the high jump, she was the best participant in the heptathlon in this discipline.

In 2015 she won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Prague with 4696 points.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she won the gold medal in the heptathlon with a personal best of 6,810 points and set a new high jump record for female heptathletes with 1.98 m together with Katarina Johnson-Thompson .

At the 2017 European Indoor Championships , she won the gold medal in the pentathlon with a new personal best. In addition, she set up a new championship maximum width of 1.96 m in the high jump. In May 2017 she took part in the Hypomeeting in Götzis as a candidate for victory and fought a three-way battle with Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Carolin Schäfer on the first day . She set new records in the hurdles and the 200-meter run and equalized her own world record in a heptathlon of 1.98 m in the high jump. On the second day she set a new Belgian national record of 59.32 m in the javelin throw and achieved 7013 points with a new best performance over the 800 meters. She replaced Sabine Braun as the meeting record holder and was the fourth woman to exceed the 7000 point mark. In August Thiam won the gold medal at the World Championships in London with 6784 points ahead of Carolin Schäfer.

Thiam crosses 2.01 m in Götzis

At the end of May 2018, Thiam started again at the all-around meeting in Götzis and scored 56 points more on the first day of the competition than at the same time last year. A jumped 2.01 m in the high jump, with which she was the first female heptathlete to overcome the 2-meter mark in an all-around competition, also contributed to this. The following day, a javelin throw 12 meters below her personal best prevented a European record that had been possible up to then, so that Thiam finally won the competition with 6806 points.

In 2019 Thiam won the Décastar in Talence with 6819 points. With a jump of 2.02 m in the high jump, she again set a new heptathlon world record. At the same time, with this performance, she was in second place on the world's top list of high jumpers for the year.

Personal best

• Heptathlon: 7013 points, May 28, 2017 in Götzis (Belgian record)
• High jump: 2.02 m, June 22, 2019 in Talence
• Long jump: 6.86 m (+0.9 m / s), August 18, 2019 in Birmingham (Belgian record)
• Long jump (indoor): 6.79 m, March 1, 2020 in Liévin (Belgian record)
• Javelin throw: 59.32 m, May 28, 2017 in Götzis (Belgian record)

Awards

• In 2013, 2014 and 2015 Nafissatou Thiam received the Belgian athletics award Golden Spike as “Athlete of the Year”.
• In 2014, 2016 and 2017 she was voted Belgian Sportswoman of the Year .
• In 2017 she was named World Athlete of the Year .

Web links

Commons : Nafissatou Thiam  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nafissatou Thiam in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nafissatou Thiam bat le record du monde junior du pentathlon indoor , Le Soir, February 3, 2013
2. ↑ Is de nieuwe Tia Hellebaut opgestaan? , Sportwereld, February 5, 2013
3. ↑ Le record du monde junior de Nafissatou Thiam, établi à Gand, ne sera pas homologué , Le Soir, March 20, 2013
4. ↑ European Athletics Indoor Championships - Pentathlon Women dlv-xml.de, accessed on November 25, 2017 (English)
5. ↑ List of results from the Hypomeeting in Götzis 2017
6. ↑ ^{a b} Götzis 2018: Thiam on course for a European record, Schäfer desperate with the shot put. In: Leichtathletik.de. May 26, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 . 
7. ↑ 6,806 points for Nafi Thiam, best performance and norm for Mareike Arndt. In: Leichtathletik.de. May 27, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Quentin Guillon: Thiam battles injury to score world lead while LePage breaks through in Talence. In: iaaf.org. June 23, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 . 
9. ^ Gouden Spikes voor Thiam en Milanov , VAL, December 4, 2015