 Gilles Anthony Afoumba in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 June 1996 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | 400 m |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 400m: 45.64s (Montgeron, 2019) NR Indoors 400m 46.68s (Reims, 2020) NR |
Gilles Anthony Afoumba (born 14 June 1996) is a sprinter from the Republic of the Congo, based in France. He set a Congolese national record for the 400 metres in 2019 and competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. [1]
He grew up in Brazzaville and was a keen footballer in his youth, before focusing on athletics. [2]
He moved to train in France in 2015. [3] That year, he won bronze over 200 metres at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships, in Addis Ababa. [4]
In 2019, he set a new Congolese national record by running 400 meters in 45.64 seconds. [5] In August 2019, he finished fourth at that distance at the 2019 African Games in Rabat. [6]
Afoumba set a Congolese national indoor record over 400 metres of 46.68 seconds in Reims in February 2020. [7] He competed in the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in 2021, in the men's 400 metres. [8]
In 2022, due to a lack of funding, he had to supplement his income by working as a store manager for a Carrefour supermarket in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, after an Olympic scholarship fell-through. [9] [5]
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