Malaika Mihambo’s parents’ names and other personal details are unknown.
Nonetheless, Malaika’s father is Tanzanian from Zanzibar and her mother is a German.
Malaika Mihambo was born to her parents in Heidelberg, Germany.
The German athlete started athletics at age of eight. Prior to that, she gained experience in ballet, gymnastics and judo.
At the 2014 European Team Championships, she won her first senior major event setting the new championship record with a jump of 6.90 metres.
Mihambo was a European Champion in 2018, World Champion in Doha 2019, achieving her personal best with 7.30m.
In 2021, she won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a jump of 7.00 metres.
Mihambo represented Germany in the World Athletics Championships 2022 and won the long jump world title.
Malaika Mihambo graduated from the University of Mannheim with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2016.
28-year-old Mihambo established a registered association called Malaika’s Herzsprung while pursuing a master’s degree in environmental sciences at the Open University in Hagen.