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Brooke Andersen (born August 23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete known for throwing events. Her personal best in the hammer throw of , set May 20, 2023 in Tucson, Arizona, ranks her as the #3 thrower of all time. Her personal best weight throw is . On July 17, 2022, at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Brooke Andersen won the gold medal with a hammer throw of .
She competed collegiately for Northern Arizona University, 2018 NAU Track and field profile for Brooke Andersen finished second in the hammer at the 2017 and 2018 NCAA Championships.
In college she also threw the weight throw.
While competing at Rancho Buena Vista High School in her hometown of Vista, California, Andersen threw the discus, placed ninth in the San Diego Section championship in 2013. 2013 San Diego CIF section track and field championship results
Jay Hibert, her high school coach with help from California Community College Athletic Association Hall of Fame coach Lloyd Higgins Lloyd Higgins Hall of Fame Point Loma Nazarene University Recognition still comes as a surprise to Coach Higgins Talon Marks introduced her to the hammer as a high school athlete.
Brooke Andersen played 14 years of soccer as a youth through high school.
In both 2018 and 2019, she finished third behind DeAnna Price and Gwen Berry at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (the number 4 and 5 throwers of all time respectively). The 2019 place guarantees her a spot on the American team at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Later she won the silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games behind Berry's last round Pan American Games record, both Americans defeating the defending champion Rosa Rodríguez. NAU Roundup: Andersen second in women's hammer throw at Pan Am Games Arizona Daily Sun Andersen was on the medal stand when Berry raised her fist in protest of injustice in America "and a president who's making it worse". Two Americans protest on medals stand at Pan Am Games San Francisco Chronicle
At the 2021 Olympic Trials she placed second overall which secured her position on the Olympic Team in Tokyo. There she went on to hit the Automatic Qualifier mark and secure a spot in the Olympic final. Andersen managed to take tenth in her first Olympic Games.
In July 2022, Andersen signed with Nike. It’s OFFICIAL I’m a Nike athlete🤩🤩 I’ve been dreaming about this day since I was a kid! I would like to give a HUGE thank you to my agent Karen Locke!! You’re amazing! And thank you Nike for giving me the opportunity to represent the swoosh! #nike #nikewomen Brooke Andersen's twitter
| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 21st (q) | Hammer throw | |
| 2018 | NACAC Championships | Toronto, Canada | 3rd | Hammer throw | |
| 2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Peru | 2nd | Hammer throw | |
| World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 20th (q) | Hammer throw | ||
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 10th | Hammer throw | |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 1st | Hammer throw | |
| NACAC Championships | Freeport, Bahamas | 2nd | Hammer throw | ||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 25th (q) | Hammer throw | |
| Pan American Games | Santiago, Chile | – | Hammer throw | NM |
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