Benjamin Compaoré
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Born | (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 (age 36) Bar-le-Duc, France | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Country | France | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||
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Benjamin Compaoré (born 5 August 1987) is a French athlete specialising in the triple jump. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Compaoré won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships and the bronze at the 2016 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 17.48 metres outdoors (-0.1 m/s, Marrakech 2014) and 17.14 metres indoors (Liévin 2012).
Personal life
Born in France, Compaoré was born to a Burkinabe father and French mother. He has a daughter with his wife, the Spanish triple jumper Ana Peleteiro in 2022.[2]
Achievements
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Benjamin Compaoré". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Ana Peleteiro: "En España hay clasismo más que racismo. Y yo como española me incluyo"". Glamour España. 21 November 2022.
External links
- Benjamin Compaoré at World Athletics
- Benjamin Compaoré at Diamond League
- Benjamin Compaoré at European Athletics (archive)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympedia
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympics.com
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympic.org (archived)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Équipe de France (in French)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
- Benjamin Compaoré on Twitter
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- 1934: Willem Peters (NED)
- 1938: Onni Rajasaari (FIN)
- 1946: Valdemar Rautio (FIN)
- 1950: Leonid Shcherbakov (URS)
- 1954: Leonid Shcherbakov (URS)
- 1958: Józef Szmidt (POL)
- 1962: Józef Szmidt (POL)
- 1966: Georgi Stoykovski (BUL)
- 1969: Viktor Saneyev (URS)
- 1971: Jörg Drehmel (GDR)
- 1974: Viktor Saneyev (URS)
- 1978: Miloš Srejović (YUG)
- 1982: Keith Connor (GBR)
- 1986: Khristo Markov (BUL)
- 1990: Leonid Voloshin (URS)
- 1994: Denis Kapustin (RUS)
- 1998: Jonathan Edwards (GBR)
- 2002: Christian Olsson (SWE)
- 2006: Christian Olsson (SWE)
- 2010: Phillips Idowu (GBR)
- 2014: Fabrizio Donato (ITA)
- 2014: Benjamin Compaoré (FRA)
- 2016: Max Heß (GER)
- 2018: Nelson Évora (POR)
- 2022: Pedro Pichardo (POR)
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