Andrea Tankeu
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| Full name | Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 August 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 54.28 m (Tampere, 2025) Shot Put: 14.88m (Castellon, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji (born 14 August 2007) is a Spanish discus thrower and shot putter. She won the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships and placed third at the Spanish Athletics Championships in the discus throw, as a 17 year-old, in 2025.[1]
Career
She is from Santander in Cantabria, and only started in Athletics at the age of 12 years-old, having also played handball she focused on athletics at secondary school, initially competing in combined events. In August 2020, in Los Corrales de Buelna, she broke the Spanish under-14 shot put record three times in a single day.[2]
She won the Spanish U16 Indoor Athletics Championships in Sabadell in the weight throw with a throw of 14.16 metres in March 2022. After representing CA Olimpia-Lafuente she became a member of Piélagos Athletics Club, coached by Ramón Torralbo.[3][4]
In July 2023, she became the Spanish U18 champion in both the shot put and discus throw. That year, she competed at the Ibero-American Athletics U18 Championships in Lima, Peru. She won the discus throw with a new Cantabria record of 47.19 metres, as well as winning the bronze medal in the shot put with a throw of 14.79 meters.[5]
In January 2024, at the age of 16 years-old, she broke the Spanish U18 record in the 1kg discus throw with a distance of 51.15 metres.[3] She won the silver medal in the discus throw at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[6][7]
She placed third at the age of 17 years-old at the senior Spanish Athletics Championships in Tarragona, throwing a personal best of 53.77 metres to finish behind Naomey Ezenwa and Inés López.[8] The following week, she won the gold medal in the discus throw at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, with a personal best of 54.28 metres to finish ahead of the defending champion, Germany's Curly Brown.[9][10] She improved her personal best by over two and-a-half metres across the two events in a week.[11]
Personal life
She was named after her aunt (Njimi) and her paternal grandfather (André). She is of Cameroonian descent.[2]
References
- ^ "Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ a b "The new blood of the throws of #SpainAthletics". atletismorfea.es. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ a b "Piélagos: The athlete from Santander, Andrea Njimi Tankeu, breaks the Spanish Under-18 record for the 1 kg discus throw". Cantabria Directa. 15 Jan 2024. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ "ANDREA NJIMI TANKEU, GOLD MEDAL AND REGIONAL WEIGHT RECORD AT THE NATIONAL UNDER-16 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". fcatle.com. March 27, 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "ANDREA TANKEU, GOLD AND BRONZE IN THE IBERO-AMERICAN UNDER 18 WITH CANTABRIA'S ABSOLUTE RECORD IN DISCUS". fcatile.com. September 18, 2023. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U18 Championships". World Athletics. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "Aarón Ceballos and Andrea Tankeu bring home the European silver medal". cadenaser.com. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
- ^ Garcia, Alvaro (9 August 2025). "Andrea Tankeu wins gold at the European Under-20 Championships and confirms Spain as a future power in discus throwing". Runners World. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ "Spaniards Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji and Ander Garaiar make history". lasvocesdelpueblo.com. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ Paya, Rafa (8 August 2025). "Boom! Andrea Tankeu's sensational continental gold in discus". as.com. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.