Myriam Soumaré

Myriam Soumaré (born 29 October 1986) is a retired French track and field sprinter.

She competed in only one event – the 4 × 100 meters relay together with Muriel Hurtis-Houairi, Lina Jacques-Sébastien and Carima Louami.

In their first round heat they did not finish and were eliminated, due to a mistake with the baton exchange.

At the 2010 European Championships – her debut appearance in the European Championships – in Barcelona, Soumaré won the gold medal in the 200 metres with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best time by 0.69 second in doing so.

[3] Soumaré was the 200 metres runner-up of the 2012 IAAF Diamond League, behind Charonda Williams.

But the initial winner of the 60m final, Tezdzhan Naimova, was stripped of her gold medal after being found guilty of doping during the competition.

Bernard Amsalem, the president of the Fédération française d'athlétisme, called the French team's disqualification "an outrage".

[6] On 24 February 2016, Soumaré announced her retirement from athletics, while leaving open the possibility of making a comeback in the future.