Hestrie Cloete

Hestrie Cloete
nation	South Africa
birthday	August 26, 1978
place of birth	Germiston , South Africa
size	185 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.06 m
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 3 × 0 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 2 × 0 × 0 × Africa Games 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Sydney 2000 high jump silver Athens 2004 high jump  World championships gold Edmonton 2001 high jump gold Paris 2003 high jump  African Championships gold Dakar 1998 high jump gold Tunis 2002 high jump gold Brazzaville 2004 high jump  Commonwealth Games gold Kuala Lumpur 1998 high jump gold Manchester 2002 high jump  Africa Games gold Harare 1995 high jump gold Johannesburg 1999 high jump

Hestrie Cloete (born Storbeck ; born August 26, 1978 in Germiston ) is a former South African high jumper . She was twice world champion.

Life

She won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004 . At the World Championships in Edmonton in 2001 and in Paris in 2003 , she was each world champion. Her victory in Paris brought her close to Stefka Kostadinova's world record with 2.06 , which is also the current African record .

The 1.85 m tall athlete (competition weight: 68 kg) was one of the dazzling personalities of the athletics scene. She smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, ate what she liked and still performed at her best for years.

The hiatus she took after the 2004 Olympics to have a child turned out to be a permanent goodbye to sport. She became pregnant in the fall of 2004, but lost her child. Shortly thereafter, she divorced her husband. In 2005 she married the singer Jurie Els and in 2007 had a daughter.

Awards

In 2003 Cloete received the Order of Ikhamanga in silver. In the same year she was named " World Athlete of the Year " by the IAAF .

Web links

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

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hestrie Cloete is not planning a quick comeback . In: Leichtathletik.de. July 27, 2005
2. ↑ Usain Bolt world athlete for the fourth time . In: Leichtathletik.de. November 24, 2012