Diana Ana Maria Ion

{{Short description|Romanian athlete (born 2000)}}

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| nationality = Romanian

| sport = Athletics

| event = Triple jump

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| pb =Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024)

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{{Medal|Sport|Women's Athletics}}

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{{Medal|Competition|European Indoor Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2025 Apeldoorn|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition| Jeux de la Francophonie }}

{{Medal|Bronze|2023 Kinshasa|Triple jump}}

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Diana Ana Maria Ion (born 27 November 2000) is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.{{cite web|title=Diana Ana Maria Ion|website=Athletics Weekly|accessdate=9 June 2024|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/romania/diana-ana-maria-ion-14629838}}

Career

A member of CSM Oneşti and coached by Cornel Grigore, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres.{{cite web|date=10 July 2021|title= Diana Ana Maria Ion placed 6th in the final of the triple jump at the Under-23 European Championships|accessdate=9 June 2024|url= https://www.agerpres.ro/sport/2021/07/10/atletism-diana-ion-locul-6-in-proba-de-triplusalt-la-europenele-under-23--745708|website=agerpres.ro}}{{cite web|url= https://www.obiectivdesuceava.ro/sport/talida-sfarghiu-cea-mai-buna-sportiva-a-anului-2021/|website=Obiectivdesuceava.ro|accessdate=4 April 2025|title= Talida Sfârghiu – cea mai bună sportivă a anului 2021|date=19 December 2021|language=Romanian}}

Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres.{{cite web|url=https://www.agerpres.ro/sport-intern/2021/01/22/atletism-victorii-pentru-florentina-iusco-daniela-stanciu-si-andrei-toader-in-etapa-a-doua-a-campionatului-national--648030|website=agerpres.ro|accessdate=9 June 2024|title=Victories for Florentina Iuşco, Daniela Stanciu and Andrei Loader in the second stage of the national championship|date=22 January 2022}} She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7201109?eventId=10229529|website=World Athletics| accessdate=9 June 2024|title=Romanian Championships|date=8 July 2023}}

Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.stiripesurse.ro/je-2023-romania-locul-5-la-campionatele-europene-de-atletism-pe-echipe-divizia-2_2964753.html|website=Stiripesurse.ro|accessdate=9 June 2024|title= JE 2023: Romania - 5th place at the European Team Athletics Championships, Division 2|first= Daniel Mihai |last=Dragomir|date=22 June 2023}} She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa.{{cite web|website=World Athletics|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7138984?eventId=10229529|accessdate=9 June 2024|title= Jeux de la Francophonie|date=31 July 2023}}{{cite web|url= https://www.agerpres.ro/english/2023/08/07/romania-ranks-second-at-games-of-la-francophonie-in-kinshasa--1150736|website=agerpres.ro|accessdate=9 June 2024|title= Romanian ranks second at the Games of La Francophonie in Kinshasa|date=7 August 2023}} She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where she had a best jump of 13.66 metres.{{cite web|date=24 August 2023|url= https://www.watchathletics.com/page/4573/women-s-triple-jump-results-world-athletics-championships-2023|website=Watch Athletics|accessdate=9 June 2024|title= Women's Triple Jump Results: World Athletics Championships 2023}}

At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7180312?eventId=10229529| website=World Athletics| accessdate=9 June 2024|title= World Athletics Indoor |date=1 March 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.agerpres.ro/sport-extern/2024/03/03/atletism-diana-ana-maria-ion-clasata-pe-locul-9-in-proba-de-triplusalt-la-mondialele-indoor--1258246|website=agerpres.ro|accessdate=9 June 2024|title= Diana Ana Maria Ion ranked 9th in the triple jump at the world indoor championships|date=3 March 2024}}

At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, she achieved her a personal best 14.23 metres to finish in fifth place overall.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7158244?eventId=10229529| website=World Athletics| accessdate=9 June 2024|title=European Athletics Championships|date=9 June 2024}}

She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and placed 13th in qualifiers with a jump of 14.03 meters, missing qualification for the final by two centimetres.{{cite web|url= https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5827/women-s-triple-jump-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics |website=Watch Athletics|accessdate=28 December 2024|title=Women's Triple jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics|date=3 August 2024}}

She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, with a distance of 14.31 metres.{{cite web|url= https://athleticsweekly.com/featured/mixed-1500m-fortunes-for-jakob-ingebrigtsen-and-georgia-hunter-bell-1039997936/ |website=Athletics Weekly|date=7 March 2025|accessdate=7 March 2025|first=Euan|last=Crumpey|title= Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell

}} She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China later that same month and finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.66 metres.{{cite web|url= https://www.flashscore.ro/stiri/diana-ion-s-a-clasat-pe-locul-9-la-triplusalt-la-mondiale-indoor-de-la-nanjing/tbzjMWZ0/|website=Flashscore.ro|accessdate=4 April 2025|language=Romanian|title= Diana Ion ranked 9th in the triple jump at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing|date=22 March 2025}}

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