Sunette Viljoen
Viljoen 2010 at the World Class Zurich
Sunette Stella Viljoen ( born October 6, 1983 in Johannesburg) is a South African javelin thrower and is one of the most successful athletes of their country. Among other things, they won three league titles Africa and two competitions of the Commonwealth Games and Summer Universiade in a row.
At the age of 20, she represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but there was a 35th place in the qualifying round not get out. Your first world championships she had previously denied a year in Paris, was ranked 16 but also not the finals. In Berlin in 2009 she placed 18th in the qualifying round. Much more successful was Viljoen for the next edition in 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. With new Africa record in the fifth throw it secured in the star-studded field surprisingly the bronze medal. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Viljoen stood as the world year best, but went in the final empty-handed.
Viljoen works as a sports teacher in Rustenburg, and turned in between 2000 and 2002 in addition as Cricketer forth. She graduated in this period includes 17 one-day appearances for South Africa.