Zenéy van der Walt

Zenéy van der Walt
nation	South Africa
birthday	22nd May 2000 (age 20)
place of birth	South Africa
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	55.05 s
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Naples 2019 400 m hurdles  Junior World Championships gold Tampere 2018 400 m hurdles  Youth World Championships gold Nairobi 2017 400 m hurdles bronze Nairobi 2017 4 × 400 m mixed
last change: September 17th, 2019

Zenéy van der Walt (born May 22, 2000 ) is a South African hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Zenéy van der Walt gained her first international experience in 2017 at the Youth World Championships in Nairobi , where she won the gold medal in the hurdles in 58.23 seconds and the bronze medal in the mixed South African relay in 3: 24.45 minutes. The following year she won the U20 World Championships in Tampere in 55.34 s and retired from the 4 x 400 meter relay with 3: 50.39 min in advance. In 2019 she had to admit defeat only to the Italian Ayomide Folorunso at the Summer Universiade in Naples in 55.73 s and finished seventh with the relay in 3: 35.97 min. At the end of August she took part in the Africa Games in Rabat for the first time , where she finished fourth in 57.67 seconds and fifth in the relay in 3: 41.17 minutes.

In 2019 van der Walt won the South African Athletics Championships in the 400-meter hurdles.

Personal bests

• 400 m hurdles: 55.05 s, March 17, 2018 in Pretoria ( African junior record )

Web links

• Zenéy van der Walt in the database of World Athletics (English)