Maryse Luzolo (born 15 March 1995) is a German Olympic

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er. She was born and raised in

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to parents from the

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. She attended the Carl von Weinberg School in Frankfurt. Luzolo won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Athletics Championships, and was the 2017 German U23 champion before suffering heavy knee injuries from a

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which severely hampered her career. She has been part of the

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since 2016. In 2018, she started studying sports and geography at the

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in Frankfurt. In December 2019, she won the silver medal at the World Military Championship in Wuhan, China. It was her first international competition after two and a half years. She was part of the German Olympic long jump team for the delayed

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. She finished ninth at the

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long jump in

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* Living people 1995 births German female long jumpers German sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent Sportspeople from Frankfurt Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany European Games competitors for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games {{Germany-athletics-bio-stub