Juliet Itoya (born 17 August 1986) is an

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

specialising 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 ...

. Born in Nigeria, she represents Spain. She won the gold medal at the 2014 Ibero-American Championships. Her personal bests in the event are 6.79 metres outdoors (+1.4 m/s, Salamanca 2016) and 6.47 metres indoors (Madrid 2016).

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1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Benin City Spanish female long jumpers Sportspeople of Nigerian descent Nigerian female long jumpers Nigerian emigrants to Spain Naturalised citizens of Spain Naturalised athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Spain Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Ibero-American Championships in Athletics winners {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub