Wenda Nel

Wenda Nel
Wenda Nel 2017
nation	South Africa
birthday	30th July 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Worcester , South Africa
size	165 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	54.37 s
society	TuksSport
Trainer	Irma Reyneke
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Africa Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 3 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Gold Coast 2018 400 m hurdles  Africa Games silver Maputo 2011 400 m hurdles  African Championships gold Marrakech 2014 400 m hurdles gold Durban 2016 400 m hurdles gold Durban 2016 4 × 400 m silver Asaba 2018 400 m hurdles
last change: September 17th, 2019

Wenda Nel (born Theron; born July 30, 1988 in Worcester ) is a South African hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance . At the beginning of her career, she also competed in sprinting at international championships.

Athletic career

Wenda Nel gained her first international experience at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakech , where she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 200-meter run with 24.33 seconds . The following year, she was eliminated from the Junior World Championships in Beijing over 100 and 200 meters and with the South African 4 x 100 meter relay in the first round. In 2007 she was at the Junior African Championships in Ouagadougou in 15.73 s eighth in the 100-meter hurdles . In 2009 she took part in the Summer Universiade in Belgrade , where she was eliminated in the first round of the 400-meter hurdles in 57.89 s. In 2010 she finished seventh in 57.70 s at the African Championships in Nairobi . In 2011 she again took part in the Student World Games in Shenzhen , where she finished fifth in 56.76 s and finished fourth in the South African 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 34.59 min after the The Russian team lying in front of them was subsequently disqualified for doping. Then she reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Daegu , in which she was eliminated with 57.06 s. At the Africa Games in Maputo she won the silver medal behind the Nigerian Muizat Ajoke Odumosu in 57.13 s .

In 2012 she came fifth at the African Championships in Porto-Novo in 56.43 s and was fourth in the relay in 3: 33.21 min. Two years later, she first took part in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and was disqualified there in the final. She then won the African Championships in Marrakech in 55.32 s and was fifth in the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech in 55.80 s. In 2015 she qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, where she finished seventh with 54.94 s in the final . In 2016 she successfully defended her title at the African Championships in Durban, Germany, in 54.86 seconds and also won the South African relay in 3: 28.49 minutes. She then took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was eliminated there with 55.83 s in the semifinals . Also at the World Championships in London the following year, she was eliminated in the semifinals with 55.70 seconds , while she did not qualify for the final with the South African team in 3: 37.82 minutes . In 2018 she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and won the bronze medal there in 54.96 s behind the Jamaican Janieve Russell and Eilidh Doyle from Scotland. In August she also won bronze at the African Championships in Asaba in 57.04 seconds behind the Nigerian Glory Onome Nathaniel and Lamiae Lhabze from Morocco. After Nathaniel was disqualified for a doping violation, Nel received the silver medal. Then she was at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava in 56.54 s sixth.

In 2019, Nel took sixth place at the Africa Games in Rabat in 58.01 s and was fifth in the relay in 3: 41.17 min.

Nel was South African champion in the 400-meter hurdles every year from 2010 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2018, and also with the 4-by-400-meter relay from 2011 to 2013 and 2015 and 2016. She has been married to triathlete Jacques Nel since 2012 .

Personal bests

• 100 meters: 11.60 s (+0.8 m / s), March 8, 2016 in Pretoria
• 200 meters: 23.39 s (+0.6 m / s), April 22, 2017 in Potchefstroom
• 400 meters: 52.03 s on May 13, 2017 in Pretoria
• 100 m hurdles: 13.88 s, April 13, 2007 in Pretoria
• 400 m hurdles: 54.37 s, May 20, 2015 in Beijing

Web links

Commons : Wenda Nel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lauren Van Der Vyver: Wenda-ful! In: Modern Athlete. November 27, 2014