Fátima Diame

{{Short description|Spanish athlete (born 1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Fátima Diame

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| full_name = Fátima Diame Diame{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/142393 |title=Fátima Diame |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 March 2023 |quote=Full name: Fátima Diame Diame |archive-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605144455/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/142393 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://rfea.es/web/estadisticas/resultados_atleta.asp?cod_temporada=14&cod_persona=131324 |title=Fátima Diame |website=RFEA.es |language=es |publisher=Real Federación Española de Atletismo |access-date=9 March 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|09|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Valencia, Spain

| height = 1.70 m

| weight = 52 kg

| sport = Athletics

| event = Long jump, Triple jump

| club = Valencia Esports

| coach = Iván Pedroso

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport |Women's Athletics}}

{{MedalCountry|{{ESP}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Indoor Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|2024 Glasgow|Long jump}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2025 Nanjing|Long jump}}

{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}

{{MedalBronze|2018 Tarragona|Long jump}}

{{MedalBronze|2018 Tarragona|Triple jump}}

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Fátima Diame Diame (born 22 September 1996) is a Spanish athlete specializing in the long jump and triple jump. At the age of 17, she became the Spanish national indoor champion in both the long jump and the 60 meters.{{cite news |date=23 February 2014 |title=Doblete inédito de la júnior Fátima Diame en los Nacionales bajo techo de Sabadell |language=es |work=20 minutos |url=https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/nacionales-atletismo-pista-cubierta-sabadell-fatima-diame-ana-peleteiro-manuel-olmedo-isabel-macias-mark-ujakpor-2067085/0/ |access-date=7 April 2022 |archive-date=12 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812183124/http://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/nacionales-atletismo-pista-cubierta-sabadell-fatima-diame-ana-peleteiro-manuel-olmedo-isabel-macias-mark-ujakpor-2067085/0/ |url-status=live }} Diame competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2024 World Indoor Championships.

Professional career

Diame was trained at Valencia's Esports Academy and made her professional debut in 2013 at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk. In 2015, she won a bronze medal in Long jump at the European Junior Championships which took place in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

She followed up her success in Sweden by winning a gold medal in 2018 at the Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships in Jesolo, Italy jumping at a record 13.82m. That same year, she further won two bronze medals: one at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain and the other at the Ibero American Championships in Trujillo, Peru.

The highlight of Diame's career came in summer of 2021, when she represented Spain at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Lennon |date=2022-02-21 |title=Everything You Need to Know About Fatima Diame |url=https://sportpersons.com/fatima-diame/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=SportPersons |language=en-US |archive-date=16 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816033628/https://sportpersons.com/fatima-diame/ |url-status=live }} She finished in 21st place.

In 2022, Diame won a gold medal at the Spanish Indoors Championships.

She competed at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where she won the bronze medal in the long jump event.{{cite web |title=Athletics Results - Athletics |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/results |website=BBC Sport |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Personal life

Diame was born in Valencia, Spain to Senegalese immigrant parents.

Diame is a sponsored Adidas Athlete.

International competitions

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colspan="6"|Representing {{ESP}}
2013

|World Youth Championships

|Donetsk, Ukraine

|13th (q)

|Long jump

|5.98 m

2014

|World Junior Championships

|Eugene, United States

|15th (q)

|Long jump

|6.00 m

2015

|European Junior Championships

|Eskilstuna, Sweden

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump

|6.55 m

2016

|Mediterranean U23 Championships

|Radès, Tunisia

|6th

|Long jump

|5.94 m

rowspan=3|2017

|rowspan=2|European U23 Championships

|rowspan=2|Bydgoszcz, Poland

|23rd (q)

|Long jump

|6.03 m

5th

|Triple jump

|13.60 m

World Championships

|London, United Kingdom

|25th (q)

|Triple jump

|13.36 m

rowspan=6|2018

|rowspan=2|Mediterranean U23 Championships

|rowspan=2|Jesolo, Italy

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Long jump

|6.15 m

bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|13.82 m

rowspan=2|Mediterranean Games

|rowspan=2|Tarragona, Spain

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump

|6.68 m

bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|13.92 m

European Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|22nd (q)

|Long jump

|6.24 m

Ibero-American Championships

|Trujillo, Peru

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump

|6.51 m (w)

2019

|European Indoor Championships

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|9th (q)

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.46 m

rowspan=2|2021

|European Indoor Championships

|Toruń, Poland

|7th

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.47 m

Olympic Games

|Tokyo, Japan

|21st (q)

|Long jump

|6.32 m

rowspan=3|2022

|World Indoor Championships

|Belgrade, Serbia

|7th

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.71 m

Ibero-American Championships

|La Nucía, Spain

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Long jump

|6.65 m

World Championships

|Eugene, United States

|16th (q)

|Long jump

|6.54 m

rowspan=2|2023

|European Indoor Championships

|Istanbul, Turkey

|10th (q)

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.48 m

World Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|6th

|Long jump

|6.82 m

rowspan=3|2024

|World Indoor Championships

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.78 m

European Championships

|Rome, Italy

|8th

|Long jump

|6.69 m

Olympic Games

|Paris, France

|15th (q)

|Long jump

|6.52 m

rowspan=2|2025

|European Indoor Championships

|Apeldoorn, Netherlands

|5th

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.73 m

World Indoor Championships

|Nanjing, China

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Long jump {{AthAbbr|i}}

|6.72 m

National titles

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

References

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