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Nafissatou Thiam Biography
Nafissatou Thiam is one of the famous Runner, who was born on the memorable day of August 19 in the year 1994. Nafissatou Thiam is a proud citizen of Belgium.
Belgian runner and athlete who won gold in theheptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also won gold in the event at 2017International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Nafissatou Thiam continues to be an inspiration for many.
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Family
She is the daughter ofDaniele Denisty and Bamba Thiam.
Height & Weight
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She finished in 4th place in theheptathlon at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics.
Trivia
In August 2017, she was featured on the cover of Feeling magazine.
Net Worth & Salary
Nafissatou Thiam net worth is $5 Million (2022).
Nafissatou Thiam Timeline
2002
Carolina Klüft, who later became Olympic champion and triple world champion, had held the record since 2002 with 4535 points.
2009
She started participating in athletics when she was seven years old, winning her first national age group titles in 2009, by which time she was already specializing in the heptathlon.
2011
At the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille, France, Thiam finished fourth in the heptathlon with a total of 5366 points.
2012
Then, as a first-year junior, she finished 14th at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in the heptathlon with a total of 5384 points.
2013
On 3 February 2013, Thiam broke the junior world indoor record in the pentathlon at a meeting in Ghent with a total of 4558 points, breaking her personal best in four of the five events.
2014
In 2014, Thiam won the bronze medal for the heptathlon at the European Athletics Championships staged in Zürich, Switzerland.
2015
In 2015, she won the silver medal in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships held in Prague and also claimed silver in the high jump at the European Under-23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
2016
She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning the heptathlon event at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
2017
She won the gold medals at the 2017 and 2022 World Championships, and 2018 and 2022 European Championships as well as the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.
2018
On 10 August 2018, she won the gold medal at the European Athletics Championships, becoming only the third woman to win Olympic Games, World and European Championships in the heptathlon, after Carolina Klüft and Jessica Ennis-Hill.
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2019
She holds the world record for the high jump discipline within the heptathlon competition, set in 2019.
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2020
She was a Belgian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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2021
On 5 March 2021, she won the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland with a total of 4904 points.
2022
At the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, Thiam claimed her second world gold medal on 18 July with a total of 6947 points.
2023
In March 2023, at the European Indoor Championships, on her way to the record third European pentathlon title, she broke the world record set in 2012 at the same Ataköy Arena by Ukraine’s Nataliya Dobrynska, totalling a score of 5055 points.
