Nafissatou Thiam

Nafissatou Thiam, called Nafi, born on 19 August 1994 in Brussels to a Belgian mother and a Senegalese father, is a Belgian multi-event athlete. She is the first athlete with three Olympic gold medals in a multi-event discipline, winning the heptathlon at Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Tokyo in 2020 and Paris in 2024, and she is the only Belgian athlete to defend an Olympic title. She also won the heptathlon at the world championships in 2017 and 2022 and at the European Championships in 2018, 2022 and 2024, and the IAAF named her World Female Athlete of the Year in 2017. In 2017 she became the fourth woman over 7000 points in the heptathlon, and in March 2023 she set the pentathlon world record of 5055 points, the first official world record by a Belgian woman in athletics.