Gilles Anthony Afoumba
 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]
Early life
He grew up in Brazzaville and was a keen footballer in his youth, before focusing on athletics.[2]
Career
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]
Personal life
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]
References
- ^ "Gilles Anthony AFOUMBA | Profile | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ^ "Young Congolese athlete Gilles Anthony Afoumba". Radio Frsnce. October 30, 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "Notre collaborateur, Gilles Anthony Afoumba, aux JO de Paris 2024". Groupe-yabe.fr. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "Gilles Anthony AFOUMBA's honours". World Athletics. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ a b Goth, Dorine (22 October 2023). "Carrefour employee and athlete at the Paris 2024 Olympics: the double life of Gilles-Anthony Afoumba". Actu.fr. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "African Games". World Athletics. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "Gilles Anthony AFOUMBA's personal bests". World Athletics. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 3 Results". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ^ Lesarge, Julien (22 October 2023). ""No time to give up": sprinter Gilles Afoumba's marathon days on the road to Paris 2024". Parisien. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
