 Angounou in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Linda Christelle Angounou Ngouayaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Cameroonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 September 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 400m hurdles: 55.94 (Troyes, 2023) NR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Linda Christelle Angounou Ngouayaka (born 23 September 1992) is a Cameroonian hurdler. She is the national record holder over 400 metres hurdles. [1]
In 2022, Angounou finished fourth in the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2022 African Championships in Mauritius. [2] [3] She competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. [4]
She won the bronze medal 400 metres hurdles at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in August 2022, in Konya, Turkey. [5] [6]
In July 2023, she set a personal best and national record over the 400m hurdles in Troyes, running 55.94 seconds. [7] [8]
She won silver in the 400m hurdles at the Francophone Games in Kinshasa in August 2023. At the same games, she won gold with the Cameroon women's 4x100m relay team, and silver with the women's 4x400m relay team. [9] [10] [11]
She won bronze at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra in the 400m hurdles in March 2024, running 56.41 seconds. [12] [13] She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [14]
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