updated event weight birth_place height sport birth_date article_title
11 august 2014 hammer throw 65 kg lb on lorient , france 1.70 athletics 6 april 1986 amy sène

amy sène

amy sène -lrb- born 6 april 1986 -rrb- is a french-born senegalese track and field athlete who competes in the hammer throw .
she is the african record holder with her personal best of 69.10 metres .
she is a two-time winner at the african championships and was the gold medallist at the 2011 all-africa games .
born in lorient to senegalese parents , she opted to represented senegal internationally from 2010 onwards .
training with the stade rennais athletisme club , she was the 2005 french junior champion and competed for her country of birth at the 2007 european athletics u23 championships .
she cleared sixty metres for the first time that year , setting a personal best of 62.00 m in june .
she improved to 63.44 m in 2009 and won the french universities championship in nice in 2010 .
following her transfer to senegal at the end of 2009 , she went on to break the senegalese record five times in 2010 , culminating in a personal best of 64.11 m to win the gold medal at the 2010 african championships in athletics .
she brought an end to marwa hussein 's eight-year dominance of the event .
she bettered her own record four more times in 2011 , with a throw of 68.45 m in tomblaine being her season 's best .
she gained selection for the 2011 world championships in athletics and threw 66.15 m in the qualifiers in what was senegal 's first hammer throw appearance at the competition .
she ended her year with a gold medal at the 2011 all-africa games .
sène broke the african record at the 2012 french athletics championships with her clearance of 69.10 m for third place .
following her continental record , she retained her hammer title at the 2012 african championships in athletics .
