Andrea Tankeu

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Andrea Tankeu
Personal information
Full nameAndrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji
NationalitySpanish
Born (2007-08-14) 14 August 2007 (age 18)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event
Discus throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Discus: 54.28 m (Tampere, 2025)
Shot Put: 14.88m (Castellon, 2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
European U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Tampere Discus
European U18 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Banská Bystrica Discus

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]

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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

  1. "Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
  2. 1 2 "The new blood of the throws of #SpainAthletics". atletismorfea.es. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. "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.
  5. "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.
  6. "European Athletics U18 Championships". World Athletics. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  7. "Aarón Ceballos and Andrea Tankeu bring home the European silver medal". cadenaser.com. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.
  8. 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.
  9. "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  10. "Spaniards Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji and Ander Garaiar make history". lasvocesdelpueblo.com. 8 August 2025. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  11. Paya, Rafa (8 August 2025). "Boom! Andrea Tankeu's sensational continental gold in discus". as.com. Retrieved 1 Nov 2025.