Françoise Mbango Etone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Françoise Mbango Etone

athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1976

Place of Birth: Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Françoise Mbango Etone

  • Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete.
  • She has competed internationally for France since 2010.
  • While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  • She currently holds the Olympic record for triple jump which she set with a distance of 15.39 m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
  • The 15.39m is the second longest women's triple jump in history under any conditions, only bettered by Inessa Kravets' world record 13 years earlier.
  • Only 25 women have ever jumped 15 metres, Etone jumped beyond 15 metres 7 of her last 11 attempts in the Olympic final alone. She is also a talented long jumper who finished second at the African Championships in 1999 (6.55 m).
  • She is the first athlete representing Cameroon to win medals at the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games.
  • She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002. During the 2005–06 academic year, she lived in New York City on a scholarship to attend St.
  • John's University in Queens, New York.
  • The scholarship was made possible through the collaboration of the American electricity company AES Sonel along with US Ambassador to Cameroon, Niels Marquardt.
  • She selected St.
  • John's University for study (along with her younger sister, Berthe) because of the school's support of cultural programs in Cameroon.

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