Two years after winning a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the 100m hurdles, Cyréna Samba-Mayela will return to the capital. The only French medalist in athletics at the last Games announced on Thursday that she will be present on June 28 at the Charlety stadium.
One of the French heroines of the Paris 2024 Olympics will make her big comeback in the capital. Two years after winning the silver medal at the Olympics, Cyréna Samba-Mayela (25 years old) will meet the Parisian public at the end of June.
The Francilienne, the only French medalist in athletics at the Paris Games that would have ended with zero points for the French without the magnificent performance of the leader of Lille Métropole Athlétisme, will be participating in the Paris meeting on June 28 at the Charlety stadium.
Samba-Mayela, who narrowly missed the gold on August 10, 2024 – finishing just one hundredth of a second behind American Masai Russell, who was crowned Olympic champion for the first time in her life – announced her presence at the Porte d’Italie stadium for this meeting which counts towards the Diamond League, the best in terms of sports events, excluding international championships or the Olympics.
An impressive lineup at the start
The French record holder (with a time of 12″31 set in Rome shortly before the Paris Games) will face tough competition on June 28. Swiss Ditaji Kambundji, current world champion, Dutch Nadine Visser, indoor world silver medalist, and Nigerian Tobi Amusan, silver medalist at the last World Championships and world record holder with a time of 12″12, will also compete in this prestigious 100m hurdles race.
Returning since last April after a season disrupted by numerous injuries, Samba-Mayela will use the event to measure herself a month before the European Championships in Birmingham in August (10-16). In Rome in 2024, “CSM” stood atop the podium in her specialty.
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