Diana Ana Maria Ion
Diana Ana Maria Ion is a Romanian triple jumper. She became Romanian national champion in 2023. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Career
A member of CSM Oneşti and coached by Cornel Grigore, in July 2021 she finished sixth at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn with a jump of 13.27 metres.Ion was runner-up at the Romanian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2022 with a jump of 13.57 metres. She then became Romanian triple jump champion in July 2023 in Craiova.
Ion competed for Romania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia in June 2023. She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa. She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest where she had a best jump of 13.66 metres.
At the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024, she finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.73 metres.
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, she achieved her a personal best 14.23 metres to finish in fifth place overall.
She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and placed 13th in qualifiers with a jump of 14.03 meters, missing qualification for the final by two centimetres.
In February 2025, she won the Romanian Indoor Athletics Championships ahead of Alexia Ioana Dospin. She won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, with a distance of 14.31 metres. She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China later that same month and finished in ninth place with a jump of 13.66 metres. In September 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.