Burger Lambrechts

Burger Lambrechts medal table
Burger Lambrechts 2012 in Istanbul
Shot put
South Africa
Commonwealth Games
gold	1998 Kuala Lumpur	20.01 m
Pan-African Games
gold	2003 Abuja	18.87 m
gold	1999 Johannesburg	19.50 m
African Championships
gold	2010 Nairobi	18.63 m
gold	1998 Dakar	19.78 m
silver	2004 Brazzaville	18.78 m

Burger Lambrechts (born April 3, 1973 in Phalaborwa ) is a South African shot putter .

Lambrechts won the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur as well as the Pan-African Games in Johannesburg in 1999 and in Abuja in 2003 . In 1998 and 2010 he was African champion, at the 2004 African Athletics Championships in Brazzaville he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Janus Robberts .

On a global level, Lambrechts was mostly left behind against the dominant athletes from North America and Eastern Europe. He achieved notable results as tenth of the World Athletics Championships 1997 in Athens, ninth at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville and fourth at the 1998 World Athletics Cup in Athens. In his two Olympic participations in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004 , he could not qualify for the final. In between, he was banned for two years after testing positive for stanozolol in a doping test in February 2001 .

After a five-year injury break, Lambrechts returned in 2010 and won the title at the 2010 and 2012 African Championships .

Lambrechts is 1.98 m tall and weighs 138 kg.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Drugs ban for shot put champion , BBC September 10, 2001
2. ^ Jonty Mark: Veteran Lamprechts chases Olympic dream , Independent Online February 25, 2012

Web links

• Burger Lambrechts in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Burger Lambrechts in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )