Benjamin Compaoré
| File:Men triple jump French Athletics Championships 2013 t160700.jpg Compaoré in 2013 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 August 1987 |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | File:Flag of France.svg France |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
Benjamin Compaoré (born 5 August 1987) is a French athlete specialising in the triple jump. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1]
Compaoré won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships and the bronze at the 2016 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 17.48 metres outdoors (-0.1 m/s, Marrakech 2014) and 17.14 metres indoors (Liévin 2012).
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Born in France, Compaoré was born to a Burkinabe father and French mother. He has a daughter with his wife, the Spanish triple jumper Ana Peleteiro, born in 2022 and called Lua.[2] He has three other daughters (Cassandra, Olympia and Iris) from a previous relationship.
Achievements
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- Benjamin Compaoré at Olympic.org (archived)
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- French men triple jumpers
- People from Bar-le-Duc
- French sportspeople of Burkinabe descent
- Sportspeople of Burkinabe descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for France
- World Athletics Championships athletes for France
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Olympic men triple jumpers
- Sportspeople from Meuse (department)
- Athletes from Grand Est
- IAAF Continental Cup winners
- French Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Burkinabe people
- Diamond League winners
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- Western African sport of athletics biography stubs
- Burkinabe sportspeople stubs
- French athletics biography stubs