Gnima Faye Explained

Gnima Faye (born 17 November 1984) is a Senegalese track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles. She was the 2012 African champion in the event and has a personal best of 13.17 seconds.

She competed in the 200 metres at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics, then switched to the hurdles for the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics. At the age of seventeen she placed fifth in the 100 m hurdles at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics.^[1] She ran a personal best of 13.59 seconds to win at the 2003 African Junior Athletics Championships and also placed second in the 400 metres hurdles as well as helping Senegal to third in the 4×100 metres relay.^[2]

Faye entered the 2004 African Championships but was disqualified. Her senior breakthrough came at the 2006 event, where she took the hurdles bronze medal and was part of the fourth-placed Senegalese relay team.^[3] She placed fifth at the 2007 All-Africa Games and was fourth in the relay, but time-wise she remained off her junior peaks.^[4] She finally bettered her 2003 personal best in the 2009 season and she ended that year with a high at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie by taking the silver medal in a personal best of 13.35 seconds.^[5]

She was runner-up to Seun Adigun at the 2010 African Championships. Faye won at the CAA Brazzaville and Gabriel Tiacoh meets that year and had a season's best of 13.45 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds. She was elected as Africa's hurdles representative for the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and she came seventh. She was based mainly in France in 2011 and she broke the Senegalese record for the 60 metres hurdles with a run of 8.22 seconds. She ran at the 2011 All-Africa Games but only finished seventh. Her switch to France paid off in 2012, as she opened her outdoor season with a personal best of 13.33 seconds, then bettered that with a run of 13.17 seconds at the French Athletics Championships.^[6] At the 2012 African Championships the defending champion Adigun slipped, enabling Faye to take the lead and win her first continental hurdles title.^[7]

Competition record

Representing
2001	World Youth Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	48th (h)	200 m	26.83
			20th (h)	Medley relay	2:25.40
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	23rd (h)	100 m hurdles	15.07
			10th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	47.55
			8th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:57.13^[8]
	African Championships	Radès, Tunisia	5th	100 m hurdles	14.08
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2003	African Junior Championships	Garoua, Cameroon	bgcolor=gold	1st	100 m hurdles	13.59
			bgcolor=silver	2nd	400 m hurdles	62.32
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	46.84
	All-Africa Games	Abuja, Nigeria	7th	100 m hurdles	14.80
2004	African Championships	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	–	100 m hurdles	DQ
2006	African Championships	Bambous, Mauritius	3rd	100 m hurdles	13.95
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	47.22
2007	All-Africa Games	Algiers, Algeria	5th	100 m hurdles	13.85
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	45.26
2009	Jeux de la Francophonie	Beirut, Lebanon	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.35
2010	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.67
	Continental Cup	Split, Croatia	7th	100 m hurdles	13.58^[9]
2011	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	7th	100 m hurdles	14.10
2012	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	bgcolor=gold	1st	100 m hurdles	13.36
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	33rd (h)	100 m hurdles	13.66
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Nice, France	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.47
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	19th (h)	60 m hurdles	8.15
	African Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	5th	100 m hurdles	13.49
2015	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	bgcolor=silver	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.28
2016	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	5th	100 m hurdles	13.63
2018	African Championships	Asaba, Nigeria	–	100 m hurdles	DNF

Notes and References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=sen/athcode=184116/index.html Faye Gnima
2. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/AFJC/AFJC2003.html African Junior Championships 2003
3. Ouma, Mark (2006-08-13). South Africans steal the show - African Championships report - Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-08.
4. http://www.africathle.com/perso/events/ALGER_2007/ALG_results.html 2007 All-Africa Games, July 18-22, Algiers
5. http://www.jeux2009.org/results/results/stampe/athletisme.pdf Livre de résultats – Athlétisme
6. http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/athletes.aspx?base=resultats&seq=287257 Gnima Faye
7. Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-29). Milama wins first-ever sprint title for Gabon – African champs, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-09.
8. Did not start in the final
9. Representing Africa