Hendrick Mokganyetsi
Hendrick Mokganyetsi ( born September 7, 1975 in Pretoria ) is a former South African sprinter and middle-distance runner.
He participated in the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. With the 4 x 400 - meter relay team he reached the semi-finals, in the 400 -meter run the quarter-finals. At the World Athletics Championships 1997 in Athens, he finished the season in fifth place in the 800 -meter run, he retired in the quarterfinal round.
The most significant success of his career, he scored by winning the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay at the IAAF 1999 World Championships in Seville. The South African team had indeed reached min in the lineup Jopie van Oudtshoorn, Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha and Arnaud Malherbe the target in national record time of 3:00,20 just as the Fourth. Originally victorious American squadron was however disqualified for a doping offense runner Antonio Pettigrew her, so that the South African quartet aufrückte one rank in the standings. A short time later Mokganyetsi won at the Pan-African Games in Johannesburg with the relay silver medal.
With the sixth place in the 400 - meter sprint at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he scored one of the outstanding individual results of his career. However, he missed the season with the finals in Sydney. At the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001 he reached the semi-finals in the 400m. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 he left the squadron in the first round.
Hendrick Mokganyetsi was twice South African champion in the 400 -meter run (2000 and 2001). Over this distance he set in 2000 with a time of 44.59 s a country record. At a height of 1.82 m, it had a competition weight of 70 kg and has worked for the South African Athletics Association after his retirement.
Bests
- 200 m: 21.75 s, February 23, 2002, Pretoria
- 400 m: 44.59 s, September 9, 2000 Yokohama
- 800 m: 1:44,62 min, June 8, 1997, Moscow