Céline Roseline Laporte (born 7 December 1984 in

Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...

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) is a female athlete from

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now based in France. She represented France until 2003. She competed at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...

, where she received a bronze medal in the women's long jump. She competed in the

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...

at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

and the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she won the silver medal in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

at the

African Championships An African Championship is a top level international sports competition between Africa, African athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports club, sports clubs. List of championships ;Athletics * African ...

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* * 1984 births Living people French female long jumpers French female hurdlers French heptathletes Naturalized citizens of Seychelles Seychellois female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Seychelles Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Seychelles World Athletics Championships athletes for Seychelles French people of Seychellois descent Sportspeople from Cannes Athletes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Seychellois female long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games African Games competitors for Seychelles Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 21st-century French sportswomen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in athletics {{Seychelles-athletics-bio-stub