Mamadou Chérif Dia (born 16 October 1984) is a

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

an athlete 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 ...

and

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 ...

. He won a bronze medal at the

2015 African Games The 11th African Games took place from September 4–19, 2015 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. This edition marked the 50th anniversary of the Games, as well as their return to Brazzaville, which hosted the first edition in 1965. Host aw ...

. His personal bests are 7.82 metres in the long jump (-0.9 m/s, Bamako 2010) and 16.55 metres in the triple jump (+0.3, Brazzaville 2015). Both results are current

national records National Records was a record label that was started in New York City by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted until early 1951. Big Joe Turner was signed at the beginning and remained until 1947. Billy Eckstine was also a big seller for the label as w ...

Competition record

References

1984 births Living people Malian male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Mali Malian male triple jumpers African Games bronze medalists for Mali African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic male triple jumpers Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade 21st-century Malian people Competitors at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games {{Mali-athletics-bio-stub