Ansume de Beer (born 7 August 2007) is a South African pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2026 African Championships.
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. That year, she won the senior South African Athletics Championships for the first time with a clearance of 4.10 metres. She also won the gold medal at the 2025 African U20 Championships in Abeokuta, Nigeria in July 2025.
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. In April, she won the senior title at the 2026 South African Athletics Championships in Stellenbosch, clearing 4.20 metres.
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.
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