Françoise Mbango Etone
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2004 Athens | Triple jump |
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2008 Beijing | Triple jump |
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2001 Edmonton | Triple jump |
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2003 Paris | Triple jump |
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.[1] While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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. 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.
Competition record
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External links
- Françoise Mbango Etone profile at IAAF
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Cameroonian triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Cameroon
- Olympic gold medalists for Cameroon
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- French triple jumpers
- Female triple jumpers
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Cameroonian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Cameroon
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Cameroon
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- French sportswomen
- African athletics biography stubs
- Cameroonian sportspeople stubs