Haoua Kessely (born 2 February 1988 in

Mantes-la-Jolie Mantes-la-Jolie (, often informally called Mantes) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France. It is located to the west of Paris, from the centre of the capital. Mantes-la-Jolie is a subprefe ...

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) is a French athlete who specialises in the triple jump. Kessely competed at the 31st

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Biography

Haoua has won six French national Indoor Athletic Championships: five in the

Long Jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, and one in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

in 2011. In 2015 at

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, she won her first Output Long Jump title with a jump of 6.13m.

Prizes

* French Outdoor National Athletic Championships : ** gold medal for Long Jump in

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and

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* French Indoor National Athletic Championships : ** gold medal for Long Jump in

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and

** gold medal in Triple Jump

References

External links

* * * 1988 births Living people People from Mantes-la-Jolie French female triple jumpers French female long jumpers Sportspeople from Yvelines {{France-longjump-bio-stub