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Wayde van Niekerk

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Born
1992 (32 years old)

Birth Place

Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa

Position
Sprinter

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Active

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Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight
70 kg (154 lb)

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Team
South Africa Athletics

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League
Diamond League

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Latest Results

					Mens 200 metres Final at Czesław Cybulski Memorial	23 Jun 24
					Mens 200 metres Final 1 at Meeting Madrid	21 Jun 24
					Mens 400 metres Final at USATF NYC Grand Prix	09 Jun 24
					Mens 400 metres Final	24 Aug 23
					Mens 400 metres Final at London Athletics Meet	23 Jul 23
					Mens 400 metres Final 1	03 Jun 23
					Mens 400 metres Final	22 Jul 22
					Mens 400 metres Semi Final 3	02 Aug 21
					Mens 400 metres Round 1 Heat 3	01 Aug 21
					Mens 200 metres Final	10 Aug 17
					Mens 400 metres Final	08 Aug 17
					Mens 400 metres Final	14 Aug 16
					Mens 400 metres Final	26 Aug 15

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Wayde van Niekerk (South African English: /ˈweɪd fʌn niːˈkɛərk/, Afrikaans: ; born 15 July 1992) 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 which he broke in the Olympic finals. He also holds the world-best time in the 300 metres.

Van Niekerk was the silver medallist in the 400m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and took bronze in the 4×400 metres relay at the 2013 Summer Universiade. He also represented South Africa at the 2013 and 2015 Athletics World Championships. At the 2015 World Championships, he won the gold medal in the 400 meters. He defended his title two years later, in London, where he also won the silver medal in the 200 meters race.

In the 2016 Olympic Games men's 400m, Van Niekerk won the gold medal with a world record time of 43.03 seconds (reaction time 0.181 s) at age 24 years and 30 days, beating the time of 43.18 seconds set by Michael Johnson during the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville, Spain.

In 2016, Van Niekerk became the first sprinter in history to have run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds, 200 metres in under 20 seconds, and 400 metres in under 44 seconds. In 2017, after a 30.81 seconds victory in the seldom-run 300 metres distance, breaking Michael Johnson's world-best time of 30.85 which was set in 2000, Van Niekerk became the only sprinter in history to have run sub-10, sub-20, sub-31 and sub-44 performances at 100m, 200m, 300m and 400m respectively.

Career Honours

World Athletics Championships 2017 South Africa Athletics	World Athletics Championships Silver 2017 South Africa Athletics	Olympics Gold 2016 South Africa Athletics	World Athletics Championships 2015 South Africa Athletics
Commonwealth Games Silver 2014 South Africa Athletics