Lynique Beneke

Lynique Beneke
Lynique Beneke in Moscow 2013
nation	South Africa
birthday	30th March 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Springs , South Africa
job	Student
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	6.81 m (April 13, 2013 in Stellenbosch )
Trainer	Emmarie Fouche
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 1 × 1 × African Championships 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Africa Games silver Rabat 2019 4 × 100 m bronze Rabat 2019 6.30 m  African Championships bronze Porto-Novo 2012 6.22 m bronze Asaba 2018 6.38 m
last change: September 17th, 2019

Lynique Beneke (* 30th March 1991 in Springs as Lynique Prinsloo ) is a South African long jumper .

Athletic career

Lynique Beneke gained her first international experience at the 2012 African Championships in Porto-Novo , where she won the bronze medal with 6.22 m behind the Nigerian Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and her compatriot Janice Josephs . A year later, she increased her best to 6.81 m and qualified for the World Championships in Moscow , where she was eliminated with 6.17 m in the qualification. Two years later she took part in the Africa Games in Brazzaville and reached fifth place with 6.13 m. Also at the African Championships in 2016 in Durban , South Africa , she finished fifth with 6.20 m. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , however, she was eliminated with 6.10 m as 33rd of the qualification . In 2017 she took part in the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where she took sixth place in the final with 6.21 m. In the following year she won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Asaba with 6.38 m behind the Nigerian Ese Brume and Marthe Koala from Burkina Faso.

In 2019 she again took part in the African Games in Rabat , where she won the bronze medal behind the Nigerian Ese Brume and Deborah Acquah from Ghana with a width of 6.30 m . In addition, she was used in the South African 4 x 100 meter relay in the run-up and thus received a silver medal.

From 2013 to 2019 Beneke was South African champion in the long jump. She graduated from Johannesburg University .

Web links

Commons : Lynique Beneke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lynique Beneke in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lynique Beneke in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )