Kyle Rademeyer
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| Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 January 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Pole vault: 5.73m (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Kyle Rademeyer (born 29 January 2002) is a South African pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 African Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]He is from Paarl in the Western Cape of South Africa but later studied in the United States at the University of South Alabama.[2] He won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.[3] He was selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England but had to withdraw after testing positive for Covid-19.[4]
He won the 2023 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas with a clearance of 5.70 metres competing for the South Alabama Jaguars.[5][2] He competed for South Africa at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 21 years-old, and although he did not reach the final, Rademeyer missed out only by five centimetres, and was just one centimetre short of his 5.71m personal best in the qualifying round.[6] He was a gold medalist in the pole vault at the 2024 African Championships in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024.[7]
In February 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama he cleared a new personal best as well as setting a new school record, meet record and Sun Belt Conference record with a clearance of 5.73m in winning the Conference Indoor Championships for Southern Alabama.[8] He won his sixth first-team All-America NCAA honours after he cleared 5.61m to place fifth in the pole vault 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach to became the Jaguar Track athlete with the most NCAA honours in their programme history.[9]
He was selected for the South African team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kyle Rademeyer". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ a b "South Alabama's Kyle Rademeyer wins NCAA pole vault title". al.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Volkov vaults to U20 title, while Ignatyeva dominates discus on day three in Nairobi". World Athletics. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Covid-19 infections sink SA's 4x100m relay team at Commonwealth Games". The Herald. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Neugebauer wins NCAA decathlon title with 8836 collegiate and national record". World Athletics. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Bottom, Wesley (27 August 2023). "No medals for SA athletics team, but there is hope for the future". Citizen.co.za. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "South Africa tops medals table at African Senior Championships in Douala". Athletics.africa. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Historic Record Falls and Personal Best Records Highlight Opening Day of Sun Belt Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships". Sun Belt Sports. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Four Sun Belt Student-Athletes Earn USTFCCCA All-America Honors at NCAA Men's Indoor Track & Field Championship". Sun Belt Sports. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Walaza rebounds from injury to be selected for World Athletics Championships". iol.co.za. 2 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
African Champions in men's pole vault | |
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