Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin

Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin
Full name	Joëlle Sandrine Mbumi Nkouindjin
nation	Cameroon
birthday	25th May 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Yaoundé , Cameroon
size	172 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , triple jump
Best performance	6.65 m 14.16 m
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 2 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 1 × 2 × 1 ×
Africa Games gold Brazzaville 2015 6.31 m gold Brazzaville 2015 13.75 m  African Championships gold Marrakech 2014 14.02 m bronze Marrakech 2014 6.25 m silver Durban 2016 6.39 m silver Durban 2016 13.37 m
last change: September 14, 2019

Joëlle Sandrine Mbumi Nkouindjin (born May 25, 1986 in Yaoundé ) is a Cameroonian long and triple jumper .

Athletic career

Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin gained her first international experience at the 2010 African Championships in Nairobi , where she finished fifth with 6.05 m and tenth in the triple jump with a distance of 12.67 m. The following year she reached ninth and tenth place at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro and was then fourth in the long jump with 6.35 m and fifth in the triple jump at the Africa Games in Maputo . At the African Championships in Porto-Novo with 5.69 m in the long jump qualification and classified in eleventh place with 12.32 m in the triple jump. In 2013 she won the bronze medal in the triple jump at the Francophonie Games with 13.44 m and was ninth in the long jump with a jump of 6.02 m. In 2014 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for the first time and took seventh place in the three jump with 13.48 m and eleventh place in the long jump with 6.18 m. She then won the African Championships in Marrakech with a triple jump of 14.02 m and won bronze with a 6.25 m long jump behind the Nigerians Ese Brume and Chinaza Amadi . At the Athletics Continental Cup there , she was sixth in both disciplines.

In 2015 she retired from the triple jump of the World Championships in Beijing with 13.06 m in qualification . At the Africa Games in Brazzaville , she won gold in the triple jump with 13.75 m and originally silver in the long jump with 6.31 m. However, the victorious Nigerian Amadi was disqualified for doping and the gold medal Mbumi was awarded. The following year she won the silver medal in the long jump behind Brume at the African Championships in Durban with 6.39 m and also in the triple jump behind the Ghanaian Nadia Eke with 13.37 m . She also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she was eliminated with 13.11 m in the qualification . In 2017 she won the silver medal behind Senegalese Sangoné Kandji at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku with 12.84 m . In addition, she was sixth in the long jump with 5.88 m. Then she won the silver medal in both disciplines at the Francophonie Games in Abidjan . In 2018 she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where she was seventh in the triple jump with 13.45 m and was eliminated from the qualification with 6.02 m in the long jump. The following year she was classified at the Africa Games in Rabat with 12.72 m in eighth place in the triple jump, as well as with 6.03 m in the long jump.

In 2019 Mbumi Nkouindjin became the Cameroonian champion in long and triple jump.

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.65 m, March 3, 2018 in Bafoussam ( Cameroonian record )
• Triple jump: 14.16 m, July 12, 2015 in Yaoundé

Web links

• Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete profile at the 2019 African Games