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Malaika Mihambo is a German athlete of Tanzanian descent. She competes in long jump.

Mihambo is 5'7" tall and her registered weight is 128 lbs. Here are 13 more things about her:

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  1. She was born in Heidelberg, Germany to a Tanzanian father and a German mother.
  2. She attended the University of Mannheim in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany where she studied political science.
  3. She finished ninth in women's long jump at the 2011 World Young Championships in Athletics in Lille, France.
  4. She finished 14th in women's long jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona, Spain.
  5. Competing in women's long jump, she finished 18th at the 2013 International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia and first at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy.
  6. Competing in women's long jump, she finished first at the European Athletics Team Championships in Braunschweig, Germany and fourth at the European Athletics Championships in Zürich, Switzerland in 2014.
  7. Competing in women's long jump, she finished first at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia and sixth at the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China in 2015.
  8. She finished third in women's long jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships, which was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from July 6-10, 2016. Representing Germany, she finished fourth in women's long jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5-21, 2016.
  9. Competing in women's long jump, she finished first at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany and fifth at the 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England in 2018.
  10. Competing in women's long jump, she finished first at both the 2019 European Athletics Team Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and the 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar and fourth at the 35th European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
  11. On February 14, 2020, she won her third consecutive win in long jump at ISTAF INDOOR in Berlin, Germany.
  12. She finished second in long jump at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championship, which took place in Torun, Poland from March 4-7, 2021.
  13. She was 27 years old when she represented Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan from July 23, 2021 to August 8, 2021. Coached by Ulrich Knapp, she won gold in women's long jump on August 3, 2021.

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