Marthe Djian
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{{Infobox sportsperson
|name = Marthe Djian
|event = Long Jump, 80 metres Hurdles
|nationality = {{FRA}}
|birth_date = {{birth-date and age |6 March 1936}}
|birth_place = Paris, France
}}
Marthe Djian (née Lambert; born 6 March 1936) is a French former athlete, who specialized in the Long jump and 80m hurdles.
Biography
Djian won five French championship athletic championships: two in the Long jump in 1956 and 1958, two in the 80m hurdles in 1956 and 1958, and one in the pentathlon in 1955. She improved seven times the French record in the long jump, bringing it to 6.13m in 1958.
Djian participated in the 1956 Olympic Games, at Melbourne. A semifinalist in the 80m hurdles, she took fifth place in the Long jump, jumping 5.88m.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/ATH/womens-long-jump.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173553/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/ATH/womens-long-jump.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:Women's Long Jump|website=sports-reference.com|access-date=24 May 2015}}
Marthe Djian married René Djian (a Semi Finalist in the Olympics in the 800m). Her daughter, Mary, was selected by the French Combined Athletic Events Team while her youngest son, Francis, became indoor 400m champion of France in 2012 (Veteran). Her granddaughter, Soliane, was Vice-Champion in the Canadian Junior indoor 200m championship.
= Prize list =
= Records =
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|+personal records ! scope="col" |Event ! scope="col" | Performance ! scope="col" | Location ! scope="col" | Date |
| Long jump
|6.13m | |1958 |
References
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Sources
- Docathlé2003, Fédération française d'athlétisme, 2003, p. 413
- {{Citation |author1=Siukonen, Markku |author2=Ahola, Matti |name-list-style=amp | title = Suuri EM-kirja | pages=57, 67 | year=1990 |publisher=Sporttikustannus | editor=Sporttikustannus Oy | isbn= 951-8920-11-7}}
- {{Citation | author=Wallechinsky, David | title=The Complete Book of the Olympics | year=1988 | page=[https://archive.org/details/completebookofol00wall/page/156 156] | publisher=Penguin Books | isbn=0-14-010771-1 | language=en | url=https://archive.org/details/completebookofol00wall/page/156 }}
External links
- Olympic profile for [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201959/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/marthe-lambert-1.html Martha Djian] at sports-reference.com
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Category:French female long jumpers
Category:French female hurdlers
Category:Olympic athletes for France
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century French sportswomen
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