Salomé Kora

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Salomé Kora athletics

Salome Kora 2018 European Athletics Championships Day 7 (cropped) .jpg
Kora at the European Championships 2018

nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 8th June 1994 (age 26)
place of birth St. Gallen , Switzerland
size 173 cm
Weight 66 kg
job Student
Career
discipline sprint
society LC Brühl Athletics St.Gallen
status active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Swiss championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Logo of the FISU Universiade
gold Taipei 2017 4 × 100 m
bronze Taipei 2017 100 m
gold Naples 2019 4 × 100 m
Swiss championships
silver St. Gallen 2016 100 m
last change: July 10, 2019

Salomé Kpayero Kora Joseph (born June 8, 1994 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss athlete who specializes in short sprints and also competes in the relay .

Life

Salomé Kora was born in St. Gallen, has two sisters and grew up in the hamlet of Oberarnegg . At the age of six, she moved with her family to Benin in West Africa , where her father is from, for five years . Back in Switzerland, she attended secondary school and then canton school. She is studying at the St. Gallen University of Education (PHSG) and would like to work as a secondary school teacher after graduation. Kora lives in St. Gallen.

Athletic career

Kora entered athletics in 2011 and immediately specialized in sprinting . Over 100 meters , she took 4th place in 2012 and third in the Swiss Junior Championships in 2013 and became Swiss U23 champion in 2014.

In 2015 Kora gained her first international experience at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn , where she was eliminated in the first round of the 100-meter run with 12.07 seconds.

In 2016 she set a new personal best over 100 meters at the European Championships in Amsterdam and was eliminated in the semi-finals with 11.65 s, ran a new Swiss record in 42.87 s with the 4 x 100 meter relay and took it later in the final in 43.00 s fourth place. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she came with the relay in the 2nd preliminary series with 43.12 s on the 5th place and missed the final by 42 hundredths of a second.

In 2017 she qualified over 100 meters for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated in the semifinals over 100 meters with 11.31 s and finished fifth with the relay in the final in 42.51 s. Shortly thereafter, she won the student world games in Taipei in the 4 x 400 meter relay with Ajla Del Ponte , Cornelia Halbheer and Selina von Jackowski in 43.81 s and won the bronze medal behind the 100 meters in 11.33 s Jamaican Sashalee Forbes and Irene Siragusa from Italy.

In 2018 Kora reached the semi-finals at the European Championships in Berlin over 100 meters and was eliminated there with 11.36 seconds. In addition, she was fourth with the season in 42.30 s.

In 2019 she again took part in the Universiade in Naples and reached fourth place over 100 meters in 11.39 s. In addition, she defended her title with the Swiss relay in 43.72 seconds. At the World Championships in Doha , she came fourth with the relay and Swiss record in 42.18 s.

Top performances

(As of February 16, 2020)

Hall

  • 60 meters: 7.27 s, February 17, 2018 in Magglingen
  • 200 meters: 24.69 s, January 25, 2015 in Magglingen

open air

  • 100 meters: 11.13 s (+1.9 m / s) on June 30, 2019 in La Chaux-de-Fonds
  • 200 meters: 23.92 s (+0.6 m / s), May 21, 2016 in St. Gallen
  • 4 × 100 m: 42.18 s, October 5, 2019 in Doha ( SR )

successes

national

international

Web links

Commons : Salomé Kora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About me on my own website, accessed on June 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ Interview , Blick.ch , May 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Factsheet Salomé Kora Athletics , from: sanktgallersportpreis.ch, accessed August 17, 2016
  4. ↑ News 2016 - Salomé Kora before deployment in Rio , on: lc-bruehl.ch, accessed August 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Swiss 4x100 m relay with 43.12 in the 12th final rank ( memento from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: swiss-athletics.ch, from August 18, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kora, Salome
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kora Joseph, Salomé Kpayero (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland