Nafissatou Thiam is on her way to achieving something extraordinary in the heptathlon. The 27-year-old Belgian athlete will try to defend her European title in Munich from August 15 to 21. If she does that, she will have two world, two Olympic, and two European titles in this extremely difficult discipline.
Since her victory at the Rio 2016 Olympics, she has lost just one major event to date – the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where she finished second to Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
A few weeks ago, Nafissatou Thiam won the second World title at the Eugene 2022, finishing with 6,947 points.
She was voted IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2017. She was a Belgian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In May 2017, at the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria, she became only the fourth woman to break the heptathlon 7000 point-barrier.
As of February 2020, Nafissatou Thiam holds the Belgian record in women’s heptathlon, women’s javelin, and women’s long jump. She set a new world record for the high jump discipline within a women’s heptathlon competition in 2019.
