Nafissatou Thiam
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
19 August 1994 Brussels,Belgium |
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Belgium
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| Club | RFCL |
| Coached by | Roger Lespagnard |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Pentathlon: 4558 points; junior indoor world record |
Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete who became Olympic champion on the heptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also broke the indoor junior world record on the women's pentathlon on 3 February 2013, but this record could not be ratified because the compulsory anti-doping control could not be organized in time.
Thiam, daughter of a Belgian mother and a Senegalese father, is a member of RFCL, an athletics club from Liège, and is coached by Roger Lespagnard. She studies geography at the University of Liège.
Nafissatou Thiam started with athletics when she was seven years old. She won her first national age group titles in 2009, when she was already participating in the heptathlon. Her favorite athlete when she was 15 was Carolina Klüft.
At the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille, France, she finished fourth in the heptathlon with a total of 5366 points. As a first-year junior, she finished 14th at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in the heptathlon.
On 3 February 2013, Thiam broke the junior indoor world record on the pentathlon at a meeting in Ghent. Carolina Klüft, who later became Olympic champion and triple world champion, had held the record since 2002 with 4535 points. Thiam totalled 4558 points, breaking her personal best on 4 of the 5 events. She is the first Belgian woman athlete ever to break a world record. However, in March 2013, the record was eventually not approved, because of a lack of anti-doping control on the day she achieved it; it took place the next day, which was beyond the deadline.
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