Kyle Blignaut
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nation | South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 9th November 1999 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 20.03 m | ||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 27, 2020 |
Kyle Blignaut (born November 9, 1999 ) is a South African shot putter .
Athletic career
Kyle Blignaut gained his first international experience in 2017 at the Junior African Championships in Tlemcen , where he won the gold medal with 20.08 m. The following year he also won the U20 World Championships in Tampere with 22.07 m with the 6 kg ball. He then won the bronze medal behind the Nigerian Chukwuebuka Enekwarti and Mohamed Magdi Hamza from Egypt at the African Championships in Asaba in the adult area with a width of 19.05 m . In 2019 he was eliminated from the qualification at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 18.55 m and then finished seventh at the Africa Games in Rabat with 17.98 m.
Personal best
- Shot put: 20.03 m, April 27, 2019 in Germiston
Web links
- Kyle Blignaut in the database of World Athletics (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Blignaut, Kyle |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African shot putter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1999 |