Nafissatou Thiam: Wiki (Athlete), Bio, Height, Age, Boyfriends, Net Worth 2023

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Nafissatou Thiam: Wiki, Age, Biography, Family, Height, Net Worth, Profession, Date of Birth, Nationality, Parents, Life Career, Education, Achievements and more: Nafissatou Thiam is a Belgian athlete trained in multi-event competition. As of February 2020, Thiam holds the Belgian records in the women’s heptathlon, women’s javelin and women’s long jump. Read the following article to know more about her and her career.

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Nafissatou Thiam’s life

Nafissatou Thiam was born on August 19, 1994 in Brussels, Belgium. As of 2021, she is 26 years old. She is not very open about her personal life, so there is not much information about her. It was also noted that she has not mentioned any details about her mother or father. Although it has been mentioned that her father is Senegalese. She started participating in athletics at the age of 7. Even the details of her and her siblings’ childhood are murky. She likes to keep her private life out of the limelight. This could just be because she is shy or too focused on her career. There is no information about where she finished college and high school.

Nafissatou Thiam Career

Young career

Nafissatou Thiam won her first national age group title in 2009. By this time, she had specialized in heptathlon. At the time, she greatly admired Swedish heptathlete Carolina Klüft.

At the 2011 World Youth Athletics Championships held in Lille, France, Thiam finished fourth in the heptathlon. She then placed 14th at the 2012 World Junior Athletics Championships in the heptathlon, as a freshman, and scored a total of 5384 points.

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On 3 February 2013, Thiam broke the junior indoor world record in the pentathlon at an event in Ghent with a total score of 4558. She became the first Belgian woman first broke the record but it was not approved due to lack of anti-doping testing.

In July 2013, Thiam won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the European Junior Athletics Championships. This set a new Belgian record of 6298 points.

Senior career

Nafissatou Thiam won the bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships in the Heptathlon event.

In 2015, she won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Pentathlon. The same year, she won another silver medal at the European U23 Championships in High Jump.

In 2016, Thiam won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the Olympic Games in Rio with 6810 points. This marked her personal best scores in five out of seven subjects. She also defeated reigning Olympic and world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Later in 2017, Thiam entered the World Athletics Championships in London as the favorite to win the competition. She eventually won the triathlon world title and became the first Belgian to win a World Athletics Championships gold medal.

She also won a gold medal at the 2018 European Championships, becoming the third woman to win an Olympic, World and European Games title in the heptathlon. She won the title behind Carolina Klüft and Jessica Ennis-Hill.

On 5 March 2021, Thiam won the pentathlon at the 2021 European Indoor Championships. Then, in August 2021, she won her second gold medal at the Olympic Games .

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Thiam is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Belgium.

Below is complete biography information about Nafissatou Thiam, family, mother, father, brother, sister, name, age, foot height, width, body measurements, boyfriend, hobbies, high school school, college, nationality, university, spouse, Instagram, income network, date of birth, zodiac sign, zodiac sign, education level, religion, date of birth.

Nafissatou Thiam Biography, Height, Weight, Profile, Net Worth

Real name	Nafissatou Thiam
Sex	Female
Year old	26
Date of birth	August 19, 1994
Place of birth	Brussels, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Hometown	Don’t know
Job	Athlete
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	69kg
School	Don’t know
Zodiac sign	Don’t know
Marital status	Don’t know
University	Don’t know
Parents	Don’t know
Siblings	Don’t know
Boyfriend	Don’t know
Religion	Don’t know
Children	Don’t know
Net value	Don’t know

Some little known facts

She was born on August 19, 1994 in Brussels, Belgium.
She won her first national age group title in 2009.
At the 2011 World Youth Athletics Championships held in Lille, France, Thiam finished fourth in the heptathlon.
She also won a gold medal at the 2018 European Championships, becoming the third woman to win an Olympic, World and European Games title in the heptathlon.