| Delphine Nkansa | |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
| Sport: | Track and Field |
| Event: | 100m, 200m |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 2001 |
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]
Nkansa 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]
Nkansa 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]
Nkansa 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]
She 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 final in Rome in June 2024. She broke her personal record. She covered 100 meters in 11.21.[17] She was also part of the Belgian 4x100m relay team which qualified for the final.[18]