Maryse Éwanjé-Épée

Maryse Éwanjé-Epée

Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1964-09-04) 4 September 1964 Poitiers, France
Height	1.76 m
Weight	62 kg
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Medal record European Indoor Championships Silver 1984 Gothenburg High jump Bronze 1983 Budapest High jump Bronze 1989 The Hague High jump Summer Universiade Bronze 1983 Edmonton High jump Jeux de la Francophonie Gold 1989 Rabat High jump Mediterranean Games Gold 1983 Casablanca High jump

Maryse Éwanjé-Epée (born September 4, 1964 in Poitiers, France) is a retired high jumper from France.

Biography

Maryse Éwanjé-Epée set her outdoor personal best on July 21, 1985, jumping 1.96 metres at the French Athletics Championships in Colombes, France. That was a French national outdoor record that was not bettered or equalled for the next 22 years. Melanie Melfort equalled it by jumping 1.96 metres on August 11, 2007. Éwanjé-Epée's indoor personal best was 1.95 metres, set in 1984.

Éwanjé-Epée 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. She finished 4th and 10th in the Olympic high jump final of 1984 and 1988 respectively. She could not take part in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics because of her failure to clear the minimum Olympic qualifying height by a mere centimetre for both of these Olympics. She won eight indoor high jump and eight outdoor high jump French Athletics Championships titles at the senior level from 1982 to 1996.

After her retirement from high jumping competition in 1996, Éwanjé-Epée worked as a television sports interviewer, sports administrator, sport consultant and radio/television presenter.^[1]

Éwanjé-Epée speaks French, English and Spanish fluently.^[1]

Éwanjé-Epée's father, Charles Éwanjé-Épée, is a Camerounian guitarist-singer-songwriter. Her mother, Geneviève Pujol, had a Spanish Catalan grandfather. Maryse Éwanjé-Epée has three sisters and no brothers; her younger sister, Monique Éwanjé-Épée, competed for France in the 60m hurdles and 100m hurdles.^[1][2]

Maryse Éwanjé-Epée married Marc Maury in 1988. They have three daughters (Mélissa, Tanya, Maïa) and one son (Mikka). She and Marc Maury divorced in 2007.^[2]

Results in international competitions

• Note: Only the position and height in the final are indicated, unless otherwise stated. (q) means the athlete did not qualify for the final, with the overall position and height in the qualification round indicated.

References

External links

• Maryse Éwanjé-Épée at Sports-Reference
• IAAF profile for Maryse Éwanjé-Épée
• World women's all-time best high jump

Records
Preceded by Brigitte Rougeron	Women's French National Champion 1982 — 1985	Succeeded by Brigitte Rougeron
Preceded by Madely Beaugendre	Women's French National Champion 1988	Succeeded by Madely Beaugendre
Preceded by Sandrine Fricot	Women's French National Champion 1993	Succeeded by Sandrine Fricot
Preceded by Sandrine Fricot	Women's French National Champion 1995 — 1996	Succeeded by Marie Collonvillé