Diana Ana Maria Ion
Romanian athlete (born 2000)
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Diana Ana Maria Ion (born 27 November 2000) is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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Diana Ana Maria Ion at Balkan Indoor Championship in Belgrade 2026. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Triple jump: 14.23 (Rome, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
A member of CSM Oneşti and coached by Cornel Grigore, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres.[2][3]
Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres.[4] She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova.[5]
Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023.[6] She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa.[7][8] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where she had a best jump of 13.66 metres.[9]
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres.[10][11]
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, she achieved her a personal best 14.23 metres to finish in fifth place overall.[12]
She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and placed 13th in qualifiers with a jump of 14.03 meters, missing qualification for the final by two centimetres.[13]
In February 2025, she won the Romanian Indoor Athletics Championships ahead of Alexia Ioana Dospin.[14] She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, with a distance of 14.31 metres.[15] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China later that same month and finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.66 metres.[16] In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.[17]
With a jump of 13.84 metres she placed second at the 2026 Romanian Indoor Championships.[18] In August 2026, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.[19]
