Emile Erasmus

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Emile Erasmus athletics
nation South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
birthday 3rd April 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Pretoria , South Africa
size 192 cm
Weight 99 kg
Career
discipline sprint
status active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
African Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
silver Gold Coast 2018 4 × 100 m
 African Championships
gold Durban 2016 4 × 100 m
last change: June 3, 2018

Emile Erasmus (born April 3, 1992 in Pretoria ) is a South African sprinter .

Athletic career

Emile Erasmus gained his first experience in international championships at the Junior African Championships 2011 in Gaborone , where he won the bronze medal over 100 meters in 10.70 seconds. At the African Championships in Durban , he won the gold medal with the South African 4 x 100 meter relay in 38.84 s in front of the Ivory Coast and Zambia. In April 2018 he took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and won the silver medal behind the United Kingdom with the South African team with a new national record of 38.24 seconds.

Erasmus is a student at the University of Pretoria .

Personal bests

  • 100 meters: 10.01 s (+0.2 m / s), July 1, 2018 in La Chaux-de-Fonds
    • 60 meters (hall): 6.69 s, January 28, 2017 in Stockholm
  • 200 meters: 20.48 s (−0.7 m / s), July 1, 2018 in La Chaux-de-Fonds

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personal data
SURNAME Erasmus, Emile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria