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Gilles Anthony Afoumba
Congolese sprinter (born 1996)
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Gilles Anthony Afoumba (born 14 June 1996) is a sprinter from the Republic of the Congo, based in France. He set a Congolese national record for the 400 metres in 2019 and competed at the 2020 Olympic Games.[1]
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Early life
He grew up in Brazzaville and was a keen footballer in his youth, before focusing on athletics.[2]
Career
He moved to train in France in 2015.[3] That year, he won bronze over 200 metres at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships, in Addis Ababa.[4]
In 2019, he set a new Congolese national record by running 400 meters in 45.64 seconds.[5] In August 2019, he finished fourth at that distance at the 2019 African Games in Rabat.[6]
Afoumba set a Congolese national indoor record over 400 metres of 46.68 seconds in Reims in February 2020.[7] He competed in the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in 2021, in the men's 400 metres.[8]
Personal life
In 2022, due to a lack of funding, he had to supplement his income by working as a store manager for a Carrefour supermarket in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, after an Olympic scholarship fell-through.[9][5]
