Daniel Sangouma

{{Short description|French sprinter (born 1965)}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Daniel Sangouma

| image =

| caption =

| full_name = Daniel René Claude Sangouma

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|7 February 1965}}

| birth_place = Saint-Denis, Réunion

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 1.87 m{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/daniel-sangouma-1.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001030839/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/daniel-sangouma-1.html |archivedate=2015-10-01}}

| weight = 84 kg

| pb = 100 m : 10.02 (Villeneuve-d'Ascq 1990)
200 m : 20.20 (Casablanca 1989)

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Men's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry | {{FRA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1988 Seoul| 4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|1991 Tokyo|4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1990 Split|4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalGold|1994 Helsinki|4 × 100 m relay}}

{{MedalSilver|1990 Split|100 m}}

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Daniel René Claude Sangouma (born 7 February 1965 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.

Biography

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay with his teammates Bruno Marie-Rose, Gilles Quenehervé and Max Morinière.

At the 1990 European Championships in Split the French team of Morinière, Sangouma, Jean-Charles Trouabal and Marie-Rose improved the world record to 37.79 seconds. The record stood less than one year, as the Santa Monica Track Club from the United States team ran in 37.67 seconds at the Weltklasse Zurich meet.[http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics-heroes/stats_athletics/worldrecords/100rly_m.asp Men's 4 x 100m. Relay. World Record Progression] - Sporting Heroes With 10.02 seconds Sangouma is also a former French record holder in the 100 metres.

International competitions

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colspan="6"|Representing {{FRA}}
rowspan=2|1985

|World Indoor Games

|Paris, France

|4th

|200 m

|21.36

European Indoor Championships

|Piraeus, Greece

|4th

|200 m

|21.13

1986

|European Indoor Championships

|Madrid, Spain

|4th

|200 m

|21.78

rowspan=2|1988

|European Indoor Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|6th

|200 m

|21.57

Olympic Games

|Seoul, South Korea

|bgcolor="cc9966" align="center" | 3rd

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.40

rowspan=4|1989

|World Cup

|Barcelona, Spain

|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd

|100 m

|10.17

rowspan=3|Jeux de la Francophonie

|rowspan=3|Casablanca, Morocco

|bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|100 m

|10.17

bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|200 m

|20.20

bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.75

rowspan=2|1990

|rowspan=2|European Championships

|rowspan=2|Split, Yugoslavia

|bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd

|100 m

|10.04 w (+2.2 m/s)

bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st

|4 × 100 m relay

|37.79

1991

|World Championships

|Tokyo, Japan

|bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd

|4 × 100 m relay

|37.87

rowspan=2|1992

|rowspan=2|European Indoor Championships

|rowspan=2|Genoa, Italy

|align="center" | 5th

|60 m

|6.64

bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd

|200 m

|20.64

rowspan=3|1993

|rowspan=3|Mediterranean Games

|rowspan=3|Narbonne, France

|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd

|100 m

|10.35

bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|200 m

|20.76

bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.96

rowspan=4|1994

|rowspan=2|European Indoor Championships

|rowspan=2|Paris, France

|align="center" | 5th

|60 m

|6.65

bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st

|200 m

|20.68

rowspan=2|European Championships

|rowspan=2|Helsinki, Finland

|11th (sf)

|200 m

|20.98 (+0.5 m/s)

bgcolor=gold|1st

|4 × 100 m relay

|38.57

References

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