Maryse Éwanjé-Épée
French athlete
Maryse Éwanjé-Épée (born September 4, 1964, in Poitiers, France) is a retired high jumper from France.
She represented France in the high jump at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. She set a French national outdoor record of 1.96 m in 1985. Ewanje-Épée also held the NCAA high jump record from 1985 to 1996 with 1.96 m.
Athletics career
Maryse Éwanjé-Épée set her outdoor personal best on July 21, 1985, jumping 1.96 metres at the French National Athletics Championships in Colombes, France. That was a French national outdoor record that remained unmatched for the next 22 years. Melanie Melfort equalled it by jumping 1.96 metres on August 11, 2007. Éwanjé-Épée's indoor personal best was 1.95 metres, set in 1984.
Éwanjé-Épée won three high jump medals (one silver and two bronzes) at the European Indoor Championships, one high jump bronze medal at the Summer Universiade and one high jump gold medal each at the Jeux de la Francophonie and the Mediterranean Games. She competed for France in the high jump in two consecutive Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988.
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