Françoise Mbango Etone
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Cameroonian and French athletics competitor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Françoise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Yaoundé
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 63
- Height
- 172
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- date of birth
- 1976-04-14
- sports discipline competed in
- triple jump
- name in native language
- Françoise Mbango Etone
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Encyclopedic overview
Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female former track and field athlete. She has competed internationally for France since 2010. While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She held the Olympic record for triple jump which she set with a distance of 15.39 m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The 15.39 m is the third longest women's triple jump in history under any conditions. Only 25 women have ever jumped 15 metres, Etone jumped beyond 15 metres on 7 of her last 11 attempts in the Olympic final alone.
Etone was also a talented long jumper who finished second at the African Championships in 1999. Etone was the first female athlete representing Cameroon to win medals at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002.
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