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Nationality | South African | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 27 August 2007 | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | |||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100m hurdles: 13.67 (Pretoria, 2025) 400m hurdles: 57.04 (Pietermaritzburg, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tumi Ramokgopa (born 27 August 2007) is a South African track and field athlete who competes as a hurdler. [1]
From Kempton Park, South Africa, she was schooled at Prestige College Hammanskraal. [2] [3]
She is a member of Athletics Gauteng North. [4] In March 2023, she won gold in the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles at the South African U18 Championships. [5] She also won the African U18 Championships 400m hurdles and 100m hurdles titles. She won a pair of bronze medals in the 400m and 100m hurdles at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago. [6]
In March 2024, she won South African U18 titles in 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles. [7] In April 2024, she won the ASA Grand Prix in Pretoria in 57.84 seconds. [8] That month, she finished third at the senior South African National Championships 400m hurdles in Pietermaritzburg in a time of 57.04 seconds, aged 16 years-old, to set a new South African U18 record. [9] [10]
She finished sixth in the 400m hurdles at the African Championships in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024. [11] She competed for South Africa at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2020, reaching the semi-finals. [12]