Malaika Mihambo

Malaika Mihambo
	Mihambo with the box of her world champion gold medal in 2019
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	3 February 1994; Heidelberg, Germany[1]
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long jump
Coached by	Carl Lewis
World Championships
European Championships
European U23 Championships
European Junior Championships

Malaika Mihambo (born 3 February 1994) is a German track and field athlete, and the current world champion in long jump.

Career

Mihambo finished ninth at the 2011 World Youth Championships, then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships and the 2013 World Championships, without reaching the final.[2] She also won the gold medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships, and finished fourth at the 2014 European Championships. She won her first senior major event at the 2014 European Team Championships, setting the new championship record with a jump of 6.90 metres. In 2015, she won the gold medal at the European U23 Championships and finished sixth at the World Championships. She narrowly missed a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth, but won the bronze medal at the 2016 European Athletics Championships. In 2018, she finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships and became European champion. Mihambo won the IAAF Diamond League and became world champion in 2019.

Her personal best in long jump is 7.30 metres, achieved in Doha on 6 October 2019. She represents the club LG Kurpfalz.

Her mother is German, her father is Tanzanian from Zanzibar.[3] She studied political science at the University of Mannheim.[4]

Mihambo at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Germany
2011	World Youth Championships	Lille, France	9th	Long jump	5.81 m
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	14th (q)	Long jump	6.15 m
2013	European Junior Championships	Rieti, Italy	1st	Long jump	6.70 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	18th (q)	Long jump	6.49 m
2014	European Team Championships	Braunschweig, Germany	1st	Long jump	6.90 m, CR
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	4th	Long jump	6.65 m
2015	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	Long jump	6.73 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	6th	Long jump	6.79 m
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	3rd	Long jump	6.65 m
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	Long jump	6.95 m
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	5th	Long jump	6.64 m
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	1st	Long jump	6.75 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	4th	Long jump	6.83 m
	European Team Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	Long jump	7.11 m w
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	1st	Long jump	7.30 m, WL

Christian Beister: „Mein Traum ist es, im Finale zu springen“. In: Schwetzinger Zeitung, 9 August 2013, p. 28.
Malaika Mihambo at World Athletics
Wolfgang Scheerer: „ Toleranz, Teamgeist, Erfolg“ In: Südwest Presse, 28 August 2015.
Malaika Mihambo ist „Sportstipendiatin des Jahres“ 2014 Archived 12 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine In: uni-mannheim.de, 12 September 2014

Awards
Preceded by Angelique Kerber	German Sportswoman of the Year 2019	Succeeded by Incumbent

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