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| Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 January 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m hurdles | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 400 mH: 56.98 (Lima, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Hannah van Niekerk (born 28 January 2005) is a South African hurdler. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 400 metres hurdles. [1]
From Boksburg, she attended Afrikaans Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria as well as the University of Pretoria. [2] [3]
Racing in Belgium in June 2024, she lowered her personal best for the 400 metres hurdles to 58.21 seconds. [4]
She won bronze in the 400m hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024. [5] [6] At the games she lowered her personal net to 56.98 seconds. [7]
Zuzana Hejnová is a retired Czech athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2012 London Olympics. Hejnová is a two-time World Champion, having claimed titles at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships in Athletics. She won bronze at the 2012 European Championships and silver for the 400 metres at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.
Muizat Ajoke Odumosu Alademerin is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Nigeria at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. She was the bronze medallist at the 2007 All-Africa Games and went on to become the continental champion with a win at the 2008 and 2012 African Championships.
María Princesa Oliveros Bohórquez is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles events. Her personal bests are 13.41 seconds and 56.26 seconds, respectively. She was the gold medallist in the 400 m hurdles at the 2011 Pan American Games, at which she also won a 4×400 metres relay bronze medal in a Colombian record time.
Wayde van Niekerk 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.
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Lara van Niekerk is a South African competitive swimmer. She is the current African, Commonwealth, and South African record holder in the long course 50-metre breaststroke and the African and South African record holder in the short course 50-metre breaststroke. She won gold medals in the 50-metre breaststroke at the 2018 African Swimming Championships and the 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as a silver medal at the 2022 World Short Course Championships and the bronze medal at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in the same event. In the 100-metre breaststroke, she won gold medals at the 2018 African Swimming Championships and the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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