Andrea Tankeu

Andrea Tankeu

Personal information
Full name	Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji
Nationality	Spanish
Born	(2007-08-14) 14 August 2007
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Discus throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Discus: 54.28 m (Tampere, 2025) Shot Put: 14.88m (Castellon, 2025)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Spain European U20 Championships 2025 Tampere Discus European U18 Championships 2024 Banská Bystrica Discus

Andrea Njimi Tankeu Djeudji (born 14 August 2007) is a Spanish discus thrower and shot putter. She won the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships and placed third at the Spanish Athletics Championships in the discus throw, as a 17 year-old, in 2025.^[1]

She is from Santander in Cantabria, and only started in Athletics at the age of 12 years-old, having also played handball she focused on athletics at secondary school, initially competing in combined events. In August 2020, in Los Corrales de Buelna, she broke the Spanish under-14 shot put record three times in a single day.^[2]

She won the Spanish U16 Indoor Athletics Championships in Sabadell in the weight throw with a throw of 14.16 metres in March 2022. After representing CA Olimpia-Lafuente she became a member of Piélagos Athletics Club, coached by Ramón Torralbo.^[3][4]

In July 2023, she became the Spanish U18 champion in both the shot put and discus throw. That year, she competed at the Ibero-American Athletics U18 Championships in Lima, Peru. She won the discus throw with a new Cantabria record of 47.19 metres, as well as winning the bronze medal in the shot put with a throw of 14.79 meters.^[5]

In January 2024, at the age of 16 years-old, she broke the Spanish U18 record in the 1kg discus throw with a distance of 51.15 metres.^[3] She won the silver medal in the discus throw at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.^[6][7]

She placed third at the age of 17 years-old at the senior Spanish Athletics Championships in Tarragona, throwing a personal best of 53.77 metres to finish behind Naomey Ezenwa and Inés López.^[8] The following week, she won the gold medal in the discus throw at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, with a personal best of 54.28 metres to finish ahead of the defending champion, Germany's Curly Brown.^[9][10] She improved her personal best by over two and-a-half metres across the two events in a week.^[11]

She was named after her aunt (Njimi) and her paternal grandfather (André). She is of Cameroonian descent.^[2]