Benjamin Compaoré

Benjamin Compaoré (born 5 August 1987) is a French athlete of Burkinabe descent 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).

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing France
2005	European Junior Championships	Kaunas, Lithuania	5th	Triple jump	15.81 m
2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	1st	Triple jump	16.61 m (-0.5 m/s)
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	13th (q)	Triple jump	16.19 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	5th	Triple jump	16.99 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	8th	Triple jump	17.17 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	6th	Triple jump	17.05 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	6th	Triple jump	17.08 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	10th (q)	Triple jump	16.48 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	1st	Triple jump	17.46 m
2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	12th	Triple jump	16.63 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	3rd	Triple jump	17.09 m
	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	12th	Triple jump	16.12 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	10th	Triple jump	16.54 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	21st (q)	Triple jump	16.46 m
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	22nd (q)	Triple jump	16.59 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	19th (q)	Triple jump	16.59 m
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	25th (q)	Triple jump	16.03 m
2022	European Championships	Munich, Germany	20th (q)	Triple jump	15.17 m

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Benjamin Compaoré". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.