Colette Uys

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Colette Uys
Championnats d'Afrique d'athletisme 2024 a Douala 21.jpg
Uys in 2024
Personal information
NationalitySouth African
Born (2000-04-20) 20 April 2000 (age 25)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Shot put, Discus, Hammer
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Shot put: 18.14m (Potchefstroom, 2025)
Discus: 57.94m (Potchefstroom, 2025)
Hammer throw: 65.84m (Potchefstroom, 2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
African Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Douala Shot put
Summer World University Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Bochum Shot put

Colette Uys (born 20 April 2000) is a South African athlete. She has won national titles at the South African Athletics Championships in the Hammer throw, Discus and Shot put. [1]

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Early and personal life

She is from Welkom in the Free State. She started throwing shot put and discus when she was in high school, and started the hammer throw in 2020. She studied in the United States at the University of South Alabama before studying medicine at the University of Pretoria. [2] [3] [4]

Career

Coached by Juanita Dupisanie, she finished 2023 with a best in the hammer throw of 59.99 metres. [3] In March 2024, she placed fourth in the hammer throw at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana with a throw of 62.35 metres. [5] At the championships, she also placed fourth in the shot put competition. [6]

In April 2024, she won the hammer throw during the South African Athletics Championships in Pietermaritzburg moving to fourth on the South African all-time list with her winning throw of 64.31 metres. At the championships she also won bronze in the shot put with a distance of 16.58 metres. [3] She won the bronze medal in the shot put at the 2024 African Championships in Athletics in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024. [7]

In April 2025, she won both the discus (57.94m) and shot put with 18.14m, three 3cm away from the national record, and won silver in the hammer throw (65.53m), at the 2025 South African Athletics Championships. [8] [9] The following month, she won in the shot put (17.16 metres), hammer throw (65.32 metres), and discus (55.48 metres) at the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Championship in May 2025. [10] In July 2025, she won the bronze medal in the shot put at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany. [11]

References

  1. "Colette Uys". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  2. Molefe, Mazola (24 July 2025). "Colette Uys: Underdog first year medicine student who won FISU bronze". sabcsport.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tuks medical student impressese with hammer throw gold performance at SA Champs". Supersport.com. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  4. "South Africa has a lot to offer to throwers - hammer thrower Colette Uys". ewn.co.za. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  5. "African Games". World Athletics. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  6. "African Games". World Athletics. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  7. "African Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  8. "Pretoria still the athletics Mecca of South Africa". Citizen.co.za. 30 April 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  9. "Nene, Uys, Sekgodiso shine on final day of ASA Senior Championships 2025". Athletics.Africa. 27 April 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  10. "Tuks athletes win most gold medals, but finish second in student athletics championship". Citizen.co.za. 6 May 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
  11. "FISU Games unsung heroes". 24 July 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.