Roelie Potgieter

Roelie Potgieter
nation	South Africa
birthday	20th March 1980 (age 39)
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	19.42 m
status	resigned
End of career	April 13, 2013
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 1 × 1 × African Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Africa Games silver Algiers 2007 19.02 m bronze Maputo 2011 18.68 m  African Championships silver Nairobi 2010 18.62 m
last change: March 7, 2020

Roelie Potgieter (born March 20, 1980 ) is a former South African shot putter .

Athletic career

Roelie Potgieter gained his first international experience in 2003 at the Summer Universiade in Daegu , where he took ninth place with a width of 18.36 m. He then took part in the Africa Games in Abuja for the first time and finished fourth there with 17.91 m. Two years later, he reached at the World Student Games in Izmir with 18.03 m tenth and 2007, he won at the Africa Games in Algiers with 19.02 m silver medal behind the Egyptian Yasser Ibrahim Farag before it in the Summer Universiade in Bangkok with 17.53 m in 15th place. In 2008 he was ninth at the African Championships in Addis Ababa with 13.38 m and in 2010 he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Burger Lambrechts at the African Championships in Nairobi with a stroke of 18.62 m . In 2011 he took part in the Africa Games in Maputo again and won the bronze medal there with 18.68 m behind Farag from Egypt and his compatriot Jaco Engelbrecht . In 2013 he ended his active career at the South African Championships in Stellenbosch at the age of 33.

In 2007, 2010 and 2011 Potgieter became the South African champion in the shot put.

Personal best

• Shot put: 19.42 m on April 9, 2011 in Durban

Web links

• Roelie Potgieter in the database of World Athletics (English)