Benjamin Compaoré
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Bar-le-Duc, France | 5 August 1987
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
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Country | France |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
Benjamin Compaoré (born 5 August 1987) is a French athlete specialising in the triple jump. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Compaoré won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships and the bronze at the 2016 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 17.48 metres outdoors (-0.1 m/s, Marrakech 2014) and 17.14 metres indoors (Liévin 2012).
Personal life
[edit]Born in France, Compaoré was born to a Burkinabe father and French mother. He has a daughter with his wife, the Spanish triple jumper Ana Peleteiro, born in 2022 and called Lua.[2] He has 3 other daughters from a previous relationship, called Cassandra, Olympia and Iris.
Achievements
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Benjamin Compaoré". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Ana Peleteiro: "En España hay clasismo más que racismo. Y yo como española me incluyo"". Glamour España. 21 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Benjamin Compaoré at World Athletics
- Benjamin Compaoré at Diamond League
- Benjamin Compaoré at European Athletics (archive)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympedia (archive)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympics.com
- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympic.org (archived)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Équipe de France (in French)
- Benjamin Compaoré at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- French male triple jumpers
- People from Bar-le-Duc
- French sportspeople of Burkinabé descent
- Sportspeople of Burkinabé descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for France
- World Athletics Championships athletes for France
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Olympic male triple jumpers
- Sportspeople from Meuse (department)
- IAAF Continental Cup winners
- French Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Burkinabé people
- Diamond League winners
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- Western African athletics biography stubs
- Burkinabe sportspeople stubs
- French athletics biography stubs