Fiona May

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Fiona May (born 12 December 1969) is a retired track and field athlete who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals. Her personal best jump was 7.11 metres, which was her silver medal result at the 1998 European Championships.

Career

She also competed briefly in the triple jump, and her career best of 14.65 metres from 1998 was good enough to place fifth in the world that season.[1] May originally competed for Great Britain, but became an Italian citizen upon her marriage to her coach Gianni Iapichino in 1994. May missed the whole 2002 season as a result of her pregnancy and childbirth. Her last significant competition was the 2005 World Championships, where she failed to reach the final.[2] May and Iapichino were married until 2011.

Born in Slough and raised in Derby, May attended Leeds Trinity & All Saints College,[3] a college affiliated with the University of Leeds, studying economics, business management and administration. In 2006, she retired from competitions and started a new successful career in show business. After some modelling, she became the spokeswoman of the Kinder snacks and she won the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2006. Later that year her acting debut was broadcast on Rai Uno as the protagonist of Butta la luna, a miniseries about racism and social integration.[4]

Other ventures

In 2019, Fiona May become the testimonial of the Italian Salesians of Don Bosco's missions in Africa and particularly of their Ethiopian activities for mothers.[5][6]

Family

May's parents are Jamaican,[7] and she is also rugby player Marcel Garvey's cousin. In 1994, she married her coach Gianni Iapichino, a former pole vaulter whose best achievements were a fifth and sixth place at the European Indoor Championships in 1992 and 1994;[8] she gave birth to their daughter Larissa in 2002. Larissa is following her parents' footsteps, winning the Italian and European titles for the 300 metres hurdles[9] and the long jump silver medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.[10]

Achievements

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1986 World Junior Championships Athens, Greece 8th 6.11 m
1987 European Junior Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st 6.64 m w
1988 World Junior Championships Sudbury, Canada 1st 6.88 m w (wind: +2.1 m/s)
Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 6th 6.62 m
1990 Commonwealth Games Auckland, New Zealand 3rd 6.55 m
European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 7th 6.77 m (wind: +1.3 m/s)
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 19th (q) 6.54 m
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain — NM
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany 14th (q) 6.42 m
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1994 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 3rd 6.90 m (wind: -0.7 m/s)
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 1st 6.98 m w
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 2nd 7.02 m
IAAF Grand Prix Final Milan, Italy 3rd 6.86 m
1997 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 1st 6.86 m
World Championships Athens, Greece 3rd 6.91 m
1998 European Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 1st 6.91 m
European Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 7.11 m
1999 World Championships Sevilla, Spain 2nd 6.94 m
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 2nd 6.92 m
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 4th 6.87 m
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 1st 7.02 m w
2003 World Championships Paris, France 9th 6.46 m
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 6th 6.64 m
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 28th (q) 6.38 m
2005 Mediterranean Games Almería, Spain 1st 6.64 m

See also

References

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Awards
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Sporting positions
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