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South Africa Ina van Rensburg Mari-Lise Furstenberg Evette de Klerk Maryke Doubell: 9 March 1987 Bloemfontein, South Africa 4 × 400 m relay: 3:28.49 South Africa Caster Semenya Jeanelle Griessel Wenda Nel Justine Palframan: 26 June 2016 African Championships: Durban, South Africa [91] [92] 4 × 800 m relay: 8:19.47 South Africa Helga van ...
African records in athletics are the best marks set in track and field and road running events by an ... South Africa 9 August 2024 Olympic Games: Paris, France [59 ...
The nonracial Interim National Olympic Committee of South Africa (now South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) was founded in 1991 during the transition to multiracial equality and affiliated to the IOC months later. The country returned at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. [2]
Wayde van Niekerk (South African English: / ˈ w eɪ d f ʌ n n iː ˈ k ɛər k /, Afrikaans: [fan niˈkɛrk]; born 15 July 1992) is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. In the 400 metres, he is the current world and Olympic record holder, having set the record when he won the event at the 2016 Olympics.
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
In June 2024, he was selected for the South African team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [11] [12] On 9 August 2024, Walaza won an Olympic silver medal as part of South Africa's 4 x 100 metres relay team at the Paris Olympics while still only 18 years old, becoming the first South African to win an Olympic medal while still in high school. [2]
Zola Budd (also known as Zola Pieterse; born 26 May 1966) is a South African middle-distance and long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain and the 1992 Olympic Games for South Africa, both times in the 3000 metres. In 1984 (unratified) and 1985, she broke the world record in the 5000 metres.
Louis Jacobus van Zyl (born 20 July 1985), better known as L. J. van Zyl, is a South African athlete competing in the 400 metre hurdles.He is the South African record holder in the event with a personal best of 47.66 seconds, which he achieved twice, three months apart.