Romeo N'tia (born 25 February 1995) is a

Benin Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its po ...

ese

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er. He finished twelfth (in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

) at the 2012 African Championships and competed at the 2014 African Championships without reaching the final. He then won the bronze medal at the

2015 African Games The 11th African Games (), also known as Brazzaville 2015, took place from September 4–19, 2015 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. This edition marked the 50th anniversary of the Games, as well as their return to Brazzaville, which hosted t ...

and finished seventh at the 2016 African Championships, fourth at the

2017 Islamic Solidarity Games The 4th Islamic Solidarity Games () was a multinational, multi-sport event that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from May 12 to 22, 2017. Previously, the event was held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and Indonesia in 2013. The second event, originally sch ...

and sixth at the 2018 African Championships His personal best jump is 7.82 metres, achieved at the 2019 French Championships in

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

. This is the Beninese record.

References

1995 births Living people Beninese male long jumpers Beninese male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 African Games African Games bronze medalists for Benin Place of birth missing (living people) Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Benin African Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Benin-athletics-bio-stub