Hendrick Mokganyetsi

Hendrick Mokganyetsi (born September 7, 1975 in Pretoria ) is a former South African sprinter and middle distance runner .

He participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . With the 4 x 400 meter relay , he reached the semi-finals, in the 400 meter run the quarter-finals. At the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 , he finished fifth with the relay, in the 800-meter run he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

The most significant success of his career he achieved by winning the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville . The South African team in the line-up Jopie van Oudtshoorn , Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha and Arnaud Malherbe had only reached the goal in a national record time of 3: 00.20 minutes. The originally victorious US relay team was subsequently disqualified for a doping offense by their runner Antonio Pettigrew , so that the South African quartet moved up one place in the ranking. A short time later, Mokganyetsi won the silver medal with the relay at the Pan-African Games in Johannesburg .

With sixth place in the 400-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , he achieved one of the outstanding individual results of his career. In contrast, he missed the finals in Sydney with the season. At the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton , he reached the semifinals over 400 m. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was eliminated from the relay in the preliminary round.

Hendrick Mokganyetsi was twice the South African champion in the 400-meter run (2000 and 2001). Over this distance he set a national record in 2000 with a time of 44.59 s. With a height of 1.82 m, he had a competition weight of 70 kg and after the end of his active career he worked for the South African Athletics Federation.

Top performances

• 200 m : 21.75 s, February 23, 2002, Pretoria
• 400 m: 44.59 s, September 9, 2000, Yokohama
• 800 m: 1: 44.62 min, June 8, 1997, Moscow

Web links

• Hendrick Mokganyetsi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Hendrick Mokganyetsi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait by Hendrick Mokganyetsi on the South African Sports Federation and Olympic Committee website