Delphine Nkansa (born 21 September 2001) is a Belgian athlete. She was the Belgian national champion over 200m in 2022 and the European Under-23 champion over that same distance in 2023.[1]
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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100m, 200m | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
editNkansa was born in Belgium to a DR Congolese father and Belgian mother.[2] She grew up in Lisbon, Portugal after her family moved for her father’s work. After achieving her baccalaureate in Lisbon, Nkansa moved to Paris to study law.[3][4]
Career
edit2022
editNkansa set a new personal best time of 23.03 seconds for the 200 metres in July 2022 in Albi, France. At the same event she improved her 100m personal best to 11.26 seconds to make her second fastest Belgian woman of all time in the event behind only Kim Gevaert. Nkansa qualified from her 200m heat at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in a time of 23.08 and was eleventh fastest in the semi-finals running 23.28. This matched her result in the 100m as she qualified from the heat to the semi-finals and also finished eleventh fastest in a time of 11.39 seconds.[5][6][7] Nkansa was part of the Belgian 4 x 100 metres relay team that qualified for the final with a seasons best time of 43.58 in the semi-final, before finishing sixth in the final.[8]
2023
editNkansa ran a new personal best over 60m of 7.24 seconds in January 2023. Soon afterwards she finished runner-up to Rani Rosius in the 60m at the Belgian national indoors championships in February 2023.[9] She was subsequently selected for the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in March 2023, in which she qualified through the rounds for the final.[10] She finished sixth in the final in a new personal best time of 7.19 seconds.[11]
At the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Espoo, Finland, Nkansa won the gold medal in the 200 metres.[12] Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she did not qualify for the semi-final of the 100 metres.[13]
2024
editShe reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[14] She ran as part of the Belgian 4x100m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[15] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[16] She placed 4th in the European Championships semi-final in Rome in June 2024, not advancing to the final. She did post a personal record, covering 100 meters in 11.21s.[17] She was also part of the Belgian 4x100m relay team which qualified for the final.[18] In June, she again broke her personal record at the 2024 Belgian Athletics Championships setting a time of 11.20s.[19] Having qualified for the women's 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings,[20] she qualified for the semi-finals by matching her PB and finishing 3rd in her round 1 heat.[21] She finished 7th in her semi-final.[22] She also ran in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, the Belgian team also having qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings.[23] The team was however disqualified in round 1 when Elise Mehuys passed the baton to her outside the takeover zone.[24][25]
References
edit- ^ "Delphine Nkansa championne d'Europe espoirs sur 200 m". www.rtl.be (in French).
- ^ Vandormael, Laura (17 April 2023). "Athlétisme : rencontre avec Delphine Nkansa, la nouvelle perle du sprint belge".
- ^ "Delphine Nkansa, the new smile of Belgian sprinting". rybf.be.
- ^ "After Portuguese game of hide-and-seek, Nkansa is a newcomer to the European Championship: "Good feeling at Belgian Rockets"". Sporza.bel.
- ^ "Nkansa and Vervaet, who equals his personal best, are in the semifinals of the 200 meters". rtbf.be.
- ^ "Athletics Euro: Delphine Nkansa and Imke Vervaet eliminated in the 200m semi-finals". Lesoir.be.
- ^ "The interview that gives a smile - Delphine Nkansa, radiant despite her elimination: "Disappointed at 50% ... go 60%"". rtbf.be.
- ^ "Day for Belgian sprinters: Falcons and Rockets to European Championship final 4x100m". newswep.com.
- ^ "Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships: Rosius beats Nkansa on 60m". rtl.be. 19 February 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Indoor Athletics Euro: Doom, Watrin and Ponette qualified in 400m, Laus eliminated, Rosius and Nkansa pass in 60m". rtbf.be. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Rani Rosius and Delphine Nkansa fourth and sixth in European Championship finals 60 meters". Standaard.be. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
- ^ "Delphine Nkansa crowned European U23 champion in the 200m: 'I thought it was impossible to win…'". euro.dayfr.com. 16 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Women's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ "Women's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "Belgium with 59 athletes to the European Athletics Championships, Cynthia Bolingo does not start individually". Nieuwsblad.be. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Women 100m Results - European Athletics Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ "BK DAG 1: DELPHINE NKANSA WINT MOOIE 100 METERFINALE TEGEN RANI ROSIUS". www.atletiek.be (in Dutch). 29 June 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "Road to Paris 24". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "WOMEN'S 100M ROUND 1 RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "WOMEN'S 100M SEMI-FINAL RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "Road to Paris 24". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "Geen finale voor Belgian Rockets na diskwalificatie, ook Tibo De Smet en Pieter Sisk niet naar halve finales 800 meter" (in Dutch). Sporza. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "WOMEN'S 4 X 100M RELAY ROUND 1 RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
