Jessie Maduka (born 23 April 1996) is a German athlete specialising 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 ...

. Earlier in her career she competed in the sprints and won a silver medal in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the individu ...

at the 2012 World Junior Championships. Her personal bests in the triple jump are 13.95 metres outdoors (-0.4 m/s, London 2018) and 13.81 metres indoors (Dortmund 2018). Between 2014 and 2018 she studied at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

International competitions

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1996 births Living people German female triple jumpers Athletes from Düsseldorf German expatriates in the United States UCLA Bruins women's track and field athletes 21st-century German women 21st-century German people {{Germany-triplejump-bio-stub