Fiona May

Fiona May

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Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1969-12-12) 12 December 1969 Slough, England
Height
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	7.11 m (1998)
Medal record Representing Italy Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 2 0 World Championships 2 1 1 European Championships 0 1 1 World Indoor Championships 1 0 0 European Indoor Championships 1 0 0 Mediterranean Games 1 0 0 European Cup 3 2 3 Representing Great Britain Event 1st 2nd 3rd Universiade 1 0 0 European Cup 0 0 3 Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Long jump 2000 Sydney Long jump World Championships 1995 Gothenburg Long jump 2001 Edmonton Long jump 1999 Seville Long jump 1997 Athens Long jump World Indoor Championships 1997 Paris Long jump European Championships 1998 Budapest Long jump 1994 Helsinki Long jump European Indoor Championships 1998 Valencia Long jump Representing England Commonwealth Games 1990 Auckland Long jump

Fiona May Iapichino (born 12 December 1969 in Slough, England) is a retired British-born Italian track and field athlete who competed 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.

Biography

She also competed briefly in triple jump, and her career best of 14.65 metres from 1998 was good enough to place fifth in the world that season. May originally competed for Great Britain, but married Gianni Iapichino and became an Italian citizen in 1994. Iapichino, a former pole vaulter whose best achievements were a fifth and sixth place at the European Indoor Championships in 1992 and 1994, was her coach as well. May gave birth to a daughter in 2002, and missed the whole season as a result. Her last significant competition to date was the 2005 World Championships, where she failed to reach the final.

May attended Leeds Trinity & All Saints College, a college affiliated 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.

Family

May's parents are Jamaican. She is also rugby player Marcel Garvey's cousin.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Great Britain and England
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: +1.3m/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
Representing Italy
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	6.90 m (wind: -0.7m/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
2005	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	1st	6.64 m

See also

• Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships
• Italian all-time lists – Long jump
• Italian all-time lists – Triple jump
• FIDAL Hall of Fame

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Fiona May profile at IAAF
• Fiona May at the Internet Movie Database

Sporting positions
Preceded by Maurren Higa Maggi	Women's Long Jump Best Year Performance 2000	Succeeded by Tatyana Kotova