List of South African records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in South Africa maintained by Athletics South Africa (ASA).

Outdoor

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
100 m	9.96 A (+0.4 m/s)	Akani Simbine	8 March 2016	ASA Night Series	Pretoria, South Africa	[1]
200 m	19.87 (-0.1 m/s)	Anaso Jobodwana	27 August 2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	[2]
300 m	31.63	Wayde van Niekerk	7 June 2015	British Grand Prix	Birmingham, Great Britain	[3]
400 m	43.48	Wayde van Niekerk	26 August 2015	World Championships	Beijing, China	[4]
600 m	1:15.58	Ryhardt van Rensburg	30 January 2015	Eaglesclub Classic Shootout	Pretoria, South Africa
800 m	1:42.69	Hezekiél Sepeng	3 September 1999	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels, Belgium
1000 m	2:15.86	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	7 August 2007	DN Galan	Stockholm, Sweden
1500 m	3:31.93	Johan Cronje	8 September 2013	Rieti Meeting	Rieti, Italy	[5]
Mile	3:50.70	Johan Cronje	31 May 2014	Prefontaine Classic	Eugene, United States	[6]
3000 m	7:41.06	Juan Van Deventer	22 July 2008	DN Galan	Stockholm, Sweden
5000 m	13:11.44	Stephen Mokoka	18 April 2015	South African Championships	Stellenbosch, South Africa	[7]
10000 m	27:29.94	Hendrick Ramaala	22 February 1999		Port Elizabeth, South Africa
10 km (road)	28:00	Matthews Motshwarateu	4 October 1980		Purchase, United States
15 km (road)	42:58	Meshack Mogotsi	2 November 1991		Cape Town, South Africa
		Shadrack Hoff	8 July 2001		Utica, United States
20 km (road)	57:46	Hendrick Ramaala	18 October 1998		Paris, France
One hour	20386 m	Kevin Shaw	2 October 1978		Bellville, South Africa
Half marathon	1:00:07	Hendrick Ramaala	4 October 1997	World Half Marathon Championships	Košice, Slovakia
25 km (road)	1:15:02	Lusapho April	9 May 2010	BIG 25	Berlin, Germany	[8]
30 km (road)	1:32:43	Neo Molema	12 January 2002		Cape Town, South Africa
Marathon	2:06:33	Gert Thys	14 February 1999	Tokyo Marathon	Tokyo, Japan
100 km (road)	6:25:07	Bruce Fordyce	4 February 1989		Stellenbosch, South Africa
110 m hurdles	13.24 (+0.3 m/s)	Lehann Fourie	7 September 2012	Memorial Van Damme	Brussels, Belgium	[9]
200 m hurdles (straight)	22.10 (+1.8 m/s)	L. J. van Zyl	9 May 2015	Manchester City Games	Manchester, Great Britain	[10]
400 m hurdles	47.66 A	L. J. van Zyl	25 February 2011	Yellow Pages Invitation Series II	Pretoria, South Africa	[11][12][13]
	47.66		31 May 2011	Golden Spike Ostrava	Ostrava, Czech Republic	[14][15]
3000 m steeplechase	8:11.50	Ruben Ramolefi	29 August 2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	[16]
High jump	2.38 m	Jacques Freitag	5 March 2005		Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Pole vault	6.03 m	Okkert Brits	18 August 1995		Cologne, Germany
Long jump	8.50 m (+1.3 m/s)	Godfrey Mokoena	4 July 2009	Meeting de Atletismo	Madrid, Spain
Triple jump	17.35 m (+0.2 m/s)	Godfrey Mokoena	14 September 2014	IAAF Continental Cup	Marrakech, Morocco	[17]
Shot put	21.97 m	Janus Robberts	2 June 2001		Eugene, United States
Discus throw	70.32 m	Frantz Kruger	26 May 2002		Salon-de-Provence, France
Hammer throw	80.63 m	Chris Harmse	15 April 2005		Durban, South Africa
Javelin throw	88.75 m	Marius Corbett	21 September 1998	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Decathlon	8398 pts	Willem Coertzen	30–31 May 2015	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	[18]
	10.99 (+0.3 m/s) (100 m), 7.46 m (-1.0 m/s) (long jump), 14.14 m (shot put), 2.03 m (high jump), 48.73 (400 m) / 14.17 (+1.5 m/s) (110 m hurdles), 44.84 m (discus), 4.60 m (pole vault), 68.43 m (javelin), 4:22.22 (1500 m)
3000 m walk (track)	11:20.39 A	Lebogang Shange	7 Mar 2015		Pretoria, South Africa	[19]
5000 m walk (track)	19:29.94	Chris Britz	27 March 1997		Pietersburg, South Africa
10000 m walk (track)	40:32.78	Chris Britz	10 April 1995		Krugersdorp, South Africa
20000 m walk (track)	1:23:20.86	Lebogang Shange	21 Jun 2015	British Championships	Bedford, Great Britain	[19]
20 km walk (road)	1:20:06	Lebogang Shange	21 February 2016	Oceania Race Walking Championships	Adelaide, Australia	[20]
30 km walk (road)	2:14:28	Christian Britz	25 August 1994		Victoria, Australia
50 km walk (road)	3:54:12	Marc Mundell	12 December 2015	Australian 50 km Walking Championships	Melbourne, Australia	[21]
4×100 m relay	38.35	South Africa Henricho Bruintjies Simon Magakwe Ncincihli Titi Akani Simbine	2 August 2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, Great Britain	[22]
4×200 m relay	1:22.06	South Africa Marcus La Grange Mathew Quinn Josef van der Linde Paul Gorries	1 March 2002		Port Elizabeth, South Africa
4×400 m relay	2:59.21	South Africa Oscar Pistorius Ofentse Mogawane Willem de Beer Shane Victor	1 September 2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	[23]
4×800 m relay	7:04.70	South Africa Gideon van Oudtshoorn Hezekiel Sepeng Jurgens Kotze Johan Botha	6 June 1999		Stuttgart, Germany
4×1500 m relay	14:50.82	South Africa Matthews Temane Deon Brummer Henning Gericke Johan Fourie	15 October 1984		Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
100 m	11.06 (+1.0 m/s)	Evette de Klerk	20 April 1990		Germiston, South Africa
	11.06 (+1.2 m/s)	Carina Horn	11 July 2015	33rd Meeting de Atletismo Madrid	Madrid, Spain	[24]
200 m	22.06 (+0.7 m/s) A	Evette de Klerk	8 April 1989		Pietersburg, South Africa
300 m	38.53	Rosisang Ramonnye	24 January 2015		Pretoria, South Africa
400 m	50.05	Heide Seyerling	25 September 2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia
600 m	1:28.05	Wenda Nel	30 January 2015	Eaglesclub Classic Shootout	Pretoria, South Africa
800 m	1:55.45	Caster Semenya	19 August 2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	[25]
1000 m	2:37.20	Ilze de Kock-Wicksell	7 February 1983		Bloemfontein, South Africa
1500 m	4:01.81	Zola Budd	21 March 1984		Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Mile	4:23.38	Zola Budd	4 March 1991		Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2000 m	5:38.07	Zola Budd	8 April 1991		Cape Town, South Africa
3000 m	8:32.00	Elana Meyer	29 April 1991		Durban, South Africa
5000 m	14:44.05	Elana Meyer	22 July 1995		Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium
10000 m	30:52.51	Elana Meyer	10 September 1994		London, United Kingdom
10 km (road)	31:13	Elana Meyer	14 October 2001		Budapest, Hungary
15 km (road)	46:57	Elana Meyer	2 November 1991		Cape Town, South Africa
20 km (road)	1:05:11	Colleen De Reuck	7 September 1998		New Haven, United States
Half marathon	1:06:44	Elana Meyer	15 January 1999		Tokyo, Japan
25 km (road)	1:27:26	Colleen De Reuck	30 Jan 1994		Pinetown, South Africa
30 km (road)	1:53:01	Monica Drogemoller	17 January 1987		Cape Town, South Africa
Marathon	2:25:15 a	Elana Meyer	18 April 1994	Boston Marathon	Boston, United States
	2:26:35	Colleen De Reuck	29 September 1996	Berlin Marathon	Berlin, Germany
100 km (road)	7:31:47 #	Helene Joubert	16 September 1995		Winschoten, Netherlands
	7:42:05	Lindsay van Aswegen	10 September 2011	25th IAU World Championships	Winschoten, Netherlands	[26]
100 m hurdles	12.94 (+1.8 m/s)	Corien Botha	10 July 1998		Salamanca, Spain
400 m hurdles	53.74	Myrtle Bothma	18 April 1986		Johannesburg, South Africa
3000 m steeplechase	9:54.19	Tebogo Masehla	4 June 2011	Memorial Léon Buyle	Oordegem, Belgium	[27][28]
High jump	2.06 m	Hestrie Cloete	31 August 2003	World Championships	Saint-Denis, France	[29]
Pole vault	4.42 m	Elmarie Gerryts	12 June 2000		Wesel, Germany
Long jump	6.93 m (+1.2 m/s)	Karin Melis Mey	7 July 2007	14th Weitsprung-Meeting der Weltklasse	Bad Langensalza, Germany
	6.93 m (+0.6 m/s)	Karin Melis Mey	7 June 2008	15th Weitsprung-Meeting der Weltklasse	Bad Langensalza, Germany
Triple jump	13.89 m (+0.6 m/s) A	Patience Ntshingila	24 March 2012	Yellow Pages Interprovincial	Potchefstroom, South Africa	[30]
	13.90 m (nw) A #		29 April 2016	South African University Championships	Polokwane, South Africa	[31]
Shot put	17.88 m	Drienkie van Wyk	25 January 2002		Germiston, South Africa
Discus throw	64.87 m	Elizna Naude	2 March 2007		Stellenbosch, South Africa
Hammer throw	59.37 m	Elmarie Knoetzen	1 February 2002		Bloemfontein, South Africa
Javelin throw	69.35 m	Sunette Viljoen	9 June 2012	Adidas Grand Prix	New York City, United States	[32]
Heptathlon	6181 pts	Janice Josephs	22–23 March 2006	Commonwealth Games	Melbourne, Australia
	13.65 (+2.0 m/s) (100 m hurdles), 1.70 m (high jump), 11.79 m (shot put), 23.42 (+0.9 m/s) (200 m) / 6.22 m (-1.4 m/s) (long jump), 43.77 m (javelin), 2:10.61 (800 m)
3000 m walk (track)	12:53.19	Nicolene Cronje	20 February 2004		Pretoria, South Africa
5000 m walk (track)	22:19.64	Nicolene Cronje	5 March 2004		Durban, South Africa
10000 m walk (track)	47:32.54 A	Nicolene Cronje	19 March 2005		Pretoria, South Africa
10 km walk (road)	45:05.4 #	Susan Vermeulen	17 April 1999		Bloemfontein, South Africa
20000 m walk (track)	1:36:18.22	Nicolene Cronje	17 March 2004		Durban, South Africa
20 km walk (road)	1:36:18	Susan Vermeulen	2 May 1999		Mézidon-Canon, France
50 km walk (road)	5:42.30	Trudi Carstens	7 July 1999		George, South Africa
4x100 m relay	43.25	South Africa Wendy Hartman Dikeledi Moropane Susanna Holtshausen Heide Seyerling	18 March 2000		Pietersburg, South Africa
4x200 m relay	1:32.72	South Africa Ina van Rensburg Mari-Lise Furstenberg Evette de Klerk Maryke Doubell	9 March 1987		Bloemfontein, South Africa
4x400 m relay	3:30.12	South Africa Surita Febbraio Adri Schoeman Heide Seyerling Estie Wittstock	18 July 2004	African Championships	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
4x800 m relay	8:19.47	South Africa Helga van Wermeskerken Ermyntrude Vermeulen Yvonne Goosen Elize Fouche	13 February 1985		Johannesburg, South Africa

Indoor

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
50 m	5.62+	Morné Nagel	24 February 2002	Meeting Pas de Calais	Liévin, France
60 m	6.48	Morné Nagel	27 January 2002		Dortmund, Germany
200 m	20.47	Anaso Jobodwana	8 March 2013	NCAA Division I Championships	Fayetteville, United States	[33]
400 m	46.44	Edwin Modibedi	22 February 1986		Syracuse, United States
800 m	1:44.91	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	9 March 2008	World Championships	Valencia, Spain	[34]
1000 m	2:16.71	Johan Botha	3 February 1999		Erfurt, Germany
1500 m	3:36.96	Juan Van Deventer	14 February 2010	Indoor Flanders Meeting	Ghent, Belgium	[35]
3000 m	7:39.55	Elroy Gelant	9 February 2014	Indoor Flanders Meeting	Ghent, Belgium	[36]
5000 m	13:38.3	Sydney Maree	6 February 1981	Millrose Games	New York, United States
50 m hurdles	6.48+	Shaun Bownes	25 February 2001	Meeting Pas de Calais	Liévin, France
60 m hurdles	7.52	Shaun Bownes	23 February 2001	Indoor Flanders Meeting	Ghent, Belgium
300 m hurdles	34.92	Llewellyn Herbert	9 February 1999	Pirkkahalli	Tampere, Finland	[37][38]
High jump	2.28 m	Jacques Freitag	26 January 2005	Pedro's Cup	Bydgoszcz, Poland
			20 February 2005		Tallinn, Estonia
		Ramsay Carelse	28 February 2006		Tallinn, Estonia
Pole vault	5.90 m	Okkert Brits	16 February 1997	Meeting Pas de Calais	Liévin, France
			1 June 1997		Toronto, Canada
Long jump	8.18 m	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	23 February 2007		Paris, France
		Rushwal Samaai	20 March 2016	World Championships	Portland, United States	[39]
Triple jump	16.22 m	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	20 February 2007	GE Galan	Stockholm, Sweden
Shot put	21.47 m	Janus Robberts	1 December 2001		Norman, United States
Heptathlon	4920 pts	Niel Giliomee	22–23 February 2016	Sun Belt Championships	Birmingham, United States	[40]
	7.25 (60 m), 6.61 m (long jump), 10.74 m (shot put), 1.70 m (high jump) / 8.89 (60 m hurdles), 4.95 m (pole vault), 3:00.19 (1000 m)
5000 m walk
4×400 m relay	3:08.45	South Africa Thapelo Phora Ofentse Mogawane Jon Seeliger Shaun de Jager	19 March 2016	World Championships	Portland, United States	[41]

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
60 m	7.15	Wendy Hartman	7 March 1999	World Championships	Maebashi, Japan
200 m	23.16	Wendy Hartman	5 March 1999	World Championships	Maebashi, Japan
400 m	55.48	Marna Schuttle	25 February 2001		Allston, United States
800 m	2:06.65	Angela Wagner	12 March 2010	NCAA Division I Championships	Fayetteville, United States	[42]
	2:05.72 OT		13 February 2010		Seattle, United States
1000 m	2:42.60	Dominique Scott	19 January 2015	Arkansas Invitational	Fayetteville, United States	[43]
1500 m	4:16.96	René Kalmer	14 February 2010		Ghent, Belgium
Mile	4:36.11	Dominique Scott	1 February 2014	Razorback Invitational	Fayetteville, United States	[44]
	4:32.48 OT		24 January 2015	Rod McCravy Invitational	Lexington, United States	[45]
3000 m	9:01.41	René Kalmer	12 March 2010	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	[46]
	8:52.57 OT	Dominique Scott	13 February 2015	Husky Classic	Seattle, United States	[47]
5000 m	15:45.40	René Kalmer	10 February 2010	GE Galan	Stockholm, Sweden	[48]
60 m hurdles	9.44	Winnie de Winnaar	13 March 2004		Sindelfingen, Germany
High jump	1.97 m	Hestrie Cloete	18 February 2001	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Pole vault	4.41 m	Elmarie Gerryts	20 February 2000	Aviva Indoor Grand Prix	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Long jump	6.85 m	Karin Melis Mey	21 February 2008	GE Galan	Stockholm, Sweden
Triple jump	11.50 m	Cindy Peters	1 February 2015	Championats Regionaux	Nantes, France	[49]
Shot put	17.49 m	Simoné du Toit	29 January 2011		Houston, United States
Weight throw	18.69 m	Annemie Smith	28 February 2014	Big Ten Championships	Geneva, United States	[50]
Pentathlon
	(60 m hurdles), (high jump), (shot put), (long jump), (800 m)
3000 m walk	15:57.06	Ada Booyens	6 March 2010	World Masters Indoor Championships	Kamloops, Canada
4x400 m relay

+ = en route to a longer distance
A = affected by altitude
# = not officially ratified
a = aided road course according to IAAF rule 260.28
OT = oversized track

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External links

• ASA web site
• South African Records - Outdoor