South Africa at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

South Africa at the
2009 World Championships in Athletics

RSA

Competitors

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2	1	0	3

South Africa competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of 24 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition. Selected athletes had achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards.

Team selection

Event	Athletes
Event	Men	Women
100 metres	Simon Magakwe
200 metres	Thuso Mpuang Tshegofatso Mputla	Isabel Le Roux
400 metres	Pieter Smith
800 metres	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Samson Ngoepe	Caster Semenya
1500 metres	Johan Cronje Peter van der Westhuizen
Marathon	Norman Dlomo Johannes Kekana Coolboy Ngamole	Tanith Maxwell
3000 m steeplechase	Ruben Ramolefi
100 metre hurdles	—
110 metre hurdles	Lehann Fourie	—
400 metre hurdles	L. J. van Zyl
4 x 100 metres relay	Unknown
4 x 400 metres relay	Unknown

Entry list. European Athletic Association (2009-07-30). Retrieved on 2009-08-16.

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