Ansume de Beer
South African pole vaulter (born 2007)
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Ansume de Beer (born 7 August 2007) is a South African pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2026 African Championships.[1]
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| Born | 7 August 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Pole vault: 4.50m (2026) AU20R | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
A member of Boland Athletics, De Beer set a new African age-group record of 4.16m metres while competing in Stellenbosch in 2025.[2] That year, she won the senior South African Athletics Championships for the first time with a clearance of 4.10 metres.[3] She also won the gold medal at the 2025 African U20 Championships in Abeokuta, Nigeria in July 2025.[4]
The following year, while competing at the South African U20 Championships in March 2026, de Beer cleared 4.18m to add two centimetres to set a new South African national U20 record.[2][5] In April, she won the senior title at the 2026 South African Athletics Championships in Stellenbosch, clearing 4.20 metres.[6]
The following month, she won the gold medal at the 2026 African Championships in Accra, Ghana, with an African U20 record clearance of 4.30 metres.[7][8][9]
