Evelyn Yankey

Getting to know Evelyn Yankey a little

Evelyn Yankey Awotwi (Ghana, 2/09/2003) is a young athlete who has excelled in the long jump, competing for Valencia Club Atletismo and for the Valencian and Spanish national teams. She took up athletics at the age of 5 at the Valencia Club Atletismo school, and it is the club with which she has spent her entire sporting career to date. She began competing in the U8 category simply as a way of doing sport and having fun. The result she is most proud of is her 2025 long jump mark of 6.79 metres, a distance that makes her the seventh-best Spaniard in history, behind a list of illustrious names such as Niurka Montalvo, Concha Montaner, Fátima Diame, Juliet Itoya, María Vicente and Tessy Ebosele. That mark made her the European U23 leader for 2025 going into the European U23 Championships in Bergen.

Sporting achievements…

Main results:

-60 m indoors: 7.84, December 2020, Luis Puig Velodrome (Valencia).

-100 m: 12.11 (+1.3 wind), May 2023, Estadi Joan Serrahima (Barcelona).

-Long jump: 6.79 m, June 2025, Los Pajaritos Stadium (Soria).

-1st, Spanish U23 Championships long jump 2025

-3rd, Spanish Short Track Championships long jump 2026

What you might not know about Evelyn…

Evelyn is studying a double degree in Early Years and Primary Education. Although at first she did not enjoy athletics, over time and as she began to specialise the sport awoke a growing interest and motivation in her, until it became a fundamental part of her life. She is one of the athletes who has grown up under the guidance of the illustrious and long-serving coach Rafa Blanquer. At just 17 she had already cleared 6 metres, and in 2025 in Soria she improved her mark by 30 centimetres on the 6.49 m she had achieved indoors.