![]() Rogail Joseph 23rd African Athletics Senior Championships 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | South African | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 22 April 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400m hurdles: 54.84 (Pietermaritzburg, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rogail Joseph (born 22 April 2000) is a South African track and field athlete who competes over 400m hurdles. [1]
Joseph is from Roodewal in Worcester in the Western Cape, and attended Worcester Gymnasium High school and the University of the Western Cape and North-West University. [2] [3]
She won the South African U20 400m Hurdles title at the SA Champs on 6 April 2019, in Stellenbosch. [4] That month, she also won the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles titles at the 2019 African U18 and U20 Championships in Athletics, as well as the South African University Championships 400m hurdles. [5] She was nominated for Emerging Athlete of the Year at the 2019 G-Sport Awards. [6]
In April 2023, she finished third over 400m hurdles at the South African National Championships. [7] In August 2023, she competed at the World University Games, in Chengdu but was disqualified for an infringement. [8]
She won a gold medal in the 400m hurdles race at the 2023 African Games in Accra in March 2024 in a personal best of 55.39. [9] [10] In April 2024, she finished runner-up at the South African National Championships 400m hurdles in Pietermaritzburg in a time of 54.84 seconds to secure the automatic qualifying time for the 2024 Sumner Olympics. [11]
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