Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck

Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck

Personal information
Born	(2002-07-12) 12 July 2002 (age 23)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	60m hurdles 8.01 (2023) 100m hurdles 12.71 (2025) NR

Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck (born 12 July 2002) is a Belgian hurdler. She won the Belgian Athletics Championships in the 100 metres hurdles in 2023. She represented Belgium in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. She equalled the Belgian national record for the 100 metres hurdles in 2025. ^[1]

Early life

She is from Brussels and was born in Anderlecht, but moved to France at the age of 12 years-old. She moved to the United States in 2019 where she studied sociology studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. ^{[2] [3]}

Career

She set a personal best in the 60 metres hurdles of 8.01 seconds during the winter indoor season of 2023. ^[3] She won the Belgian Athletics Championships in the 100 metres hurdles in July 2023 in Bruges. ^[4] That month, she made her international debut representing Belgium at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. ^[5]

She competed for Belgium in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, but crashed out after striking a hurdle in her heat. ^{[6] [7]}

In April 2025, she lowered her personal best 12.87 (wind: 0.0m/s) in the 100m hurdles at the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut, California, to move to third on the Belgian all-time list. ^[8]

She equaled the Belgian 100m hurdles national record of 12.71 seconds (+1.5 m/s) in the semi-finals of the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon on 12 June 2025. The national record time had been first set by Anne Zagré in 2015. ^{[9] [10] [11]} Competing at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Germany she placed fourth in the 100 metres hurdles final, her time of 12.96 seconds being one hundredth of a second slower than bronze medal winner Alicja Sielska of Poland. ^[12]

She was selected for the Belgian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. ^[13]

References

1. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
2. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck equals BR 100m hurdles at US college championships, goes to World Championships". Sporza.be. 13 Jun 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
3. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck will experience her baptism of fire at the Glasgow World Indoor Championships in the 60m hurdles: "I am very happy for this opportunity"". dhnet.be. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
4. "Belgian Championships". World Athletics. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
5. "A first experience that calls for others for Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck (Excelsior Brussels)". sudinfo.be. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
6. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck's unfortunate fall from grace at her first World Indoor Athletics Championships: "I'll turn the page quickly"". dhnet.be. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
7. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck falls on the first obstacle: "It can happen to anyone"". rtl.be. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
8. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck goes under 13 seconds and gets closer to the minimum for Tokyo". rtbf.be. April 20, 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
9. "Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck equals Belgian 100-meter hurdles record at NCAA Championships". Le Soir. 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
10. "NCAA Women's DI Track and Field Championships 2025 Results & Scores". Flotrack. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
11. "Three for the price of one! Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck equals BR, conquers World Championship limit and advances to NCAA final". atni.be (in Flemish). 13 June 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
12. "Elien Vekemans wins gold in pole vault at Summer World University Games". Brussels Times. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
13. "Belgian Athletics maakt volledige selectie WK Tokio bekend: Anne Zagré mee met Rockets". atni.be. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.