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Born | Yaoundé, Cameroon [1] | 25 May 1986||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Triple jump, long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joëlle Sandrine Mbumi Nkouindjin (born 25 May 1986) is a Cameroonian athlete whose specialty is the triple jump. [2] She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. She has personal bests of 14.16 metres in the triple jump (Yaoundé 2015) and 6.35 metres in the long jump (Yaoundé 2014).
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 11th | Long jump | 6.18 m |
7th | Triple jump | 13.48 m | |||
African Championships | Marrakech, Morocco | 3rd | Long jump | 6.25 m | |
1st | Triple jump | 14.02 m | |||
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 26th (q) | Triple jump | 13.06 m |
African Games | Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo | 1st | Long jump | 6.31 m | |
1st | Triple jump | 13.75 m | |||
2016 | African Championships | Durban, South Africa | 2nd | Long jump | 6.39 m (w) |
2nd | Triple jump | 13.37 m | |||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 36th (q) | Triple jump | 13.11 m | |
2017 | Islamic Solidarity Games | Baku, Azerbaijan | 6th | Long jump | 5.88 m |
2nd | Triple jump | 12.84 m | |||
Jeux de la Francophonie | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | 2nd | Long jump | 6.34 m (w) | |
2nd | Triple jump | 13.58 m | |||
2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 7th | Triple jump | 13.45 m |
2019 | African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 8th | Long jump | 6.03 m |
8th | Triple jump | 12.72 m |
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