Diana Ana Maria Ion | |
Nationality: | Romanian |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Triple jump |
Birth Date: | 27 November 2000 |
Pb: | Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024) |
Diana Ana Maria Ion (born 27 November 2000) is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023.[1]
A member of CSM Oneşti, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres.[2]
Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres.[3] She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova.[4]
Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023.[5] She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa.[6] [7] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[8]
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres.[9] [10]
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, she achieved her a personal best 14.23 metres to finish in fifth place overall.[11]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in July 2024, she placed 13th in qualifiers with a jump of 14.03 meters, missing to qualify for the final by just 2 centimeters.