Kyle Rademeyer

Kyle Rademeyer

Rademeyer in 2024
Personal information
Nationality	South African
Born	(2002-01-29) 29 January 2002 (age 23)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Pole vault: 5.73m (2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing   South Africa African Championships 2024 Douala Pole vault

Kyle Rademeyer (born 29 January 2002) is a South African pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 African Championships. ^[1]

Career

He is from Paarl in the Western Cape of South Africa but later studied in the United States at the University of South Alabama. ^[2] He won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. ^[3] He was selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England but had to withdraw after testing positive for Covid-19. ^[4]

He won the 2023 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas with a clearance of 5.70 metres competing for the South Alabama Jaguars. ^{[5] [2]} He competed for South Africa at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 21 years-old, and although he did not reach the final, Rademeyer missed out only by five centimetres, and was just one centimetre short of his 5.71m personal best in the qualifying round. ^[6] He was a gold medalist in the pole vault at the 2024 African Championships in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024. ^[7]

In February 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama he cleared a new personal best as well as setting a new school record, meet record and Sun Belt Conference record with a clearance of 5.73m in winning the Conference Indoor Championships for Southern Alabama. ^[8] He won his sixth first-team All-America NCAA honours after he cleared 5.61m to place fifth in the pole vault 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach to became the Jaguar Track athlete with the most NCAA honours in their programme history. ^[9]

He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final. ^{[10] [11]}

References

1. "Kyle Rademeyer". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
2. "South Alabama's Kyle Rademeyer wins NCAA pole vault title". al.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
3. "Volkov vaults to U20 title, while Ignatyeva dominates discus on day three in Nairobi". World Athletics. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
4. "Covid-19 infections sink SA's 4x100m relay team at Commonwealth Games". The Herald. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
5. "Neugebauer wins NCAA decathlon title with 8836 collegiate and national record". World Athletics. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
6. Bottom, Wesley (27 August 2023). "No medals for SA athletics team, but there is hope for the future". Citizen.co.za. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
7. "South Africa tops medals table at African Senior Championships in Douala". Athletics.africa. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
8. "Historic Record Falls and Personal Best Records Highlight Opening Day of Sun Belt Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships". Sun Belt Sports. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
9. "Four Sun Belt Student-Athletes Earn USTFCCCA All-America Honors at NCAA Men's Indoor Track & Field Championship". Sun Belt Sports. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
10. "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 15 September 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
11. "Walaza rebounds from injury to be selected for World Athletics Championships". iol.co.za. 2 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.