Lara van Niekerk
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Eugene da Ponte[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lara van Niekerk (born 13 May 2003) is a South African competitive swimmer. She is the current African, South African, and Commonwealth record holder in the long course 50-metre breaststroke and the African and South African record holder in the short course 50-metre breaststroke. At the 2018 African Swimming Championships, she won gold medals in the 50-metre breaststroke, 100-metre breaststroke, 200-metre breaststroke, and the 4×100-metre medley relay. She won the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in the 50-metre breaststroke and the 100-metre breaststroke.
Background
Van Niekerk was born 13 May 2003 in South Africa.[2]
Career
2017 African Junior Championships
At the 2017 African Junior Swimming Championships in Cairo, Egypt in March, Van Niekerk won a total of five medals including gold medals in the 100-metre breaststroke, 4×100-metre mixed medley relay, 50-metre breaststroke, 4×100-metre medley relay, and a silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke.[2]
2018 African Championships
2018 African Championships | ||
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200 m breaststroke | 2:35.25 | |
50 m breaststroke | 31.99 (CR) | |
100 m breaststroke | 1:11.13 | |
4×100 m medley | 4:12.83 |
In 2018, at the year's African Swimming Championships in Algiers, Algeria, Van Niekerk won a gold medal in each of the four events she competed.[3] She won her first gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:35.25.[3][4] For her second gold medal, she won the 50-metre breaststroke with a new Championships record time of 31.99 seconds, which broke the former record of 32.06 seconds set by Tilka Paljk of Zambia in the prelims heats.[3][5] In the 100-metre breaststroke, she won her third gold medal of the Championships, finishing over eight-tenths of a second ahead of the silver medalist in the event with a time of 1:11.13.[3][6] For her fourth and final event of the Championships, she concluded with another gold medal, this time helping win the 4×100-metre medley relay in 4:12.83, splitting a 1:10.40 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.[3][7]
2019 World Junior Championships
The following year, Van Niekerk competed in four events at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, placing fourth in the 50-metre breaststroke with a 31.12, 20th in the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:10.95, 30th in the 200-metre breaststroke with a 2:36.91, and tenth in 4:15.71 as part of the 4×100-metre medley relay with a split of 1:11.42 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.[8]
2021
At the 2021 South Africa National Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg in September, Van Niekerk set two new African and South African records in the short course 50-metre breaststroke, first setting a mark of 30.06 seconds in the prelims heats, then lowering her records to a time of 29.85 seconds in the final.[9][10] Her swim made her the first South African woman to swim the race in less than 30 seconds.[9][11] Approximately two months later, she set new African, South African, and Commonwealth records in the long course 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 29.88 seconds at the 2021 Northern Tigers Swimming Championships in Pretoria.[11][12] With her time of 29.88 seconds, she also became the first South African woman to finish the event faster than 30 seconds and the seventh-fastest female swimmer in the event in history.[11][13]
2022
Van Niekerk swam faster than 1:07.00 in the long course 100-metre breaststroke twice at the 2022 Grand Prix international meet number two in Durban in February, first swimming a personal best time of 1:06.52 in the preliminary heats, then a 1:06.74 in the final.[14][15]
2022 South Africa National Championships (LC)
For the 2022 South Africa National Swimming Championships in Gqeberha in April, in part a selection meet to determine the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games South Africa team members, Van Niekerk entered to compete in the 50-metre breaststroke, 50-metre freestyle, 50-metre butterfly, and 100-metre breaststroke.[16] On the first day of competition, 6 April, she set new African, South African, and Commonwealth records in the 50-metre breaststroke, lowering her former mark of 29.88 seconds from 2021 to 29.72 seconds in the prelims heats of the event.[17][18][19][20] The records were ratified by the governing body for aquatic sports in South Africa, Swimming South Africa, on 7 April 2022.[20]
In the final, Van Niekerk placed first in 30.60 seconds, finishing 0.27 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Tatjana Schoenmaker and attaining a qualifying time for both the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.[21][22][23] In the prelims heats of the 50-metre freestyle on day two, she swam a 27.53 in prelims heat six and did not advance to the final in the evening.[24] For the 50-metre butterfly prelims heats on day three, she placed sixth in prelims heat one with a time of 28.57 seconds, not making the top eight across all prelims heats and thus not qualifying for the evening final.[25] On the fourth day, in the prelims heats of the 100-metre breaststroke, she swam a personal best time of 1:06.08 and qualified for the evening final, where she went on to swim a personal best time of 1:05.67 to win the gold medal and achieve a qualifying time for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games.[26][27][28] She was named to both the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games teams.[29][30]
2022 World Aquatics Championships
2022 World Championships | ||
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50 m breaststroke | 29.90 |
In her first event of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 100-metre breaststroke, Van Niekerk qualified for the evening semifinals with a time of 1:06.75 and rank of tenth from the preliminaries.[31] She equalled her time of 1:06.75 in the semifinals, this time placing thirteenth and not advancing to the final.[32][33] In the preliminaries of the 50-metre breaststroke five days later, she ranked first overall with a time of 29.77 seconds and advanced to the semifinals.[34][35][36] She finished in a time of 29.99 seconds in the semifinals, qualifying for the final ranking third behind Benedetta Pilato of Italy and Rūta Meilutytė of Lithuania.[37] In the final of the 50-metre breaststroke, she won the first medal for South Africa in any aport at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, a bronze medal with a time of 29.90 seconds, and continued on the streak of South Africa winning at least one medal at a FINA World Aquatics Championships since 2001.[38][39][1]
2022 Commonwealth Games
2022 Commonwealth Games | ||
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50 m breaststroke | 29.73 (GR) | |
100 m breaststroke | 1:05.47 |
On the first day of swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, England starting the month following the World Championships, Van Niekerk ranked first in the preliminaries of the 50-metre breaststroke, setting a new Games record with her time of 29.82 seconds and qualifying for the semifinals.[40][41][42][43] She lowered her Games record to a 29.80 in the semifinals, qualifying for the final ranking first.[44][45][46] In the final the following day, she won the gold medal with a Games record time of 29.73 seconds.[47][48][49] Her gold medal was the first medal of any kind for South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in any sport.[50][51][52]
Day four, Van Niekerk qualified for the semifinals of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:06.40 in the morning preliminaries, which was 0.70 seconds ahead of second-ranked Tatjana Schoenmaker.[53] Swimming under the 1:06.00 threshold for the first time at a Commonwealth Games in the semifinals with a time of 1:05.96, she qualified for the final of the event along with fellow South Africans Tatjana Schoenmaker, who ranked second, and Kaylene Corbett, who ranked seventh.[54] She won the gold medal in the final with a personal best time of 1:05.47.[55][56][57] Later in the session, she helped set new African and South African records in the 4×100-metre mixed medley relay in the final, splitting a 1:05.41 to contribute to the new records's time of 3:44.38 and help place fourth.[58] Day six of six, she split a 1:05.56 in the final of the 4×100-metre medley relay, contributing to a fourth-place finish less than two-tenths of a second behind the team from England in a new African and South African record time of 3:59.63.[59]
2022 South Africa National Championships (SC)
At the 2022 South Africa Short Course Championships, held in mid-August in Pietermaritzburg, Van Niekerk set a new African record in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 29.62 seconds, which doubled as a qualifying time for the 2022 World Short Course Swimming Championships.[60][61][62] Prior to setting the new record and winning the gold medal in the evening final, she set a new record of 29.67 seconds in the morning preliminaries heats.[62] She also achieved a qualifying time, and the national title, in the 200-metre breaststroke with a personal best time of 2:22.75.[63] Earlier in the Championships, she achieved qualifying and personal best times in the 100-metre breaststroke twice, first in the preliminaries heats with a time of 1:04.92, and second in the final of the event with a 1:04.89 to win the gold medal and national title.[64]
International championships (50m)
Meet | 50 breaststroke | 100 breaststroke | 200 breaststroke | 4×100 medley relay | 4×100 mixed medley relay |
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Junior level | |||||
AJC 2017 | |||||
WJC 2019 | 4th | 20th | 30th | 10th | |
Senior level | |||||
AC 2018 | |||||
WC 2022 | 13th | ||||
CG 2022 | 4th | 4th |
Personal best times
Long course metres (50 m pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Notes | Ref | |
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50 m breaststroke | 29.72 | h | 2022 SA National Swimming Championships | Gqeberha | 6 April 2022 | AF, NR, CR | [17] |
100 m breaststroke | 1:05.47 | 2022 Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, England | 2 August 2022 | [55] | ||
200 m breaststroke | 2:31.30 | 2021 South Africa Grand Prix No. 4 | Durban | 29 May 2021 | [2] |
Legend: AF – African record; NR – South African record; CR – Commonwealth record
Short course metres (25 m pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Notes | Ref |
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50 m breaststroke | 29.62 | 2022 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 13 August 2022 | AF, NR | [60] |
100 m breaststroke | 1:04.89 | 2022 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 11 August 2022 | [64] | |
200 m breaststroke | 2:22.75 | 2022 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 14 August 2022 | [63] |
Legend: AF – African record; NR – South African record
Continental and national records
Long course metres (50 m pool)
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Ref | |
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1 | 50 m breaststroke | 29.88 | 2021 Northern Tigers Swimming Championships | Pretoria | 20 December 2021 | AF, NR | Former | Former CR | [11][12] | |
2 | 50 m breaststroke (2) | 29.72 | h | 2022 SA National Swimming Championships | Gqeberha | 6 April 2022 | AF, NR | Current | CR | [17][18][19][20] |
3 | 4×100 m mixed medley | 3:44.38 | 2022 Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, England | 2 August 2022 | AF, NR | Current | [58] | ||
4 | 4×100 m medley | 3:59.63 | 2022 Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, England | 3 August 2022 | AF, NR | Current | [59] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Short course metres (25 m pool)
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Type | Status | Ref | |
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1 | 50 m breaststroke | 30.06 | h | 2021 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 16 September 2021 | AF, NR | Former | [10] |
2 | 50 m breaststroke (2) | 29.85 | 2021 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 16 September 2021 | AF, NR | Former | [9][10] | |
3 | 50 m breaststroke (3) | 29.67 | h | 2022 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 13 August 2022 | AF, NR | Former | [62] |
4 | 50 m breaststroke (4) | 29.62 | 2022 South Africa National Short Course Championships | Pietermaritzburg | 13 August 2022 | AF, NR | Current | [60][61][62] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Awards and honours
- GSport Award, Momentum Athlete of the Year: 2022 (awarded 14 September 2022)[65][66]
- GSport Award, Global Woman in Sport: 2022 (awarded 14 September 2022)[65][66]
- GSport Award honour, Ministerial Recognition of Excellence: 2022 (awarded 14 September 2022)[65]
- Gauteng Sport Award finalist, Sportswoman of the Year: 2022 (announced 3 November 2022)[67]
- Gauteng Sport Award finalist, Sport Personality of the Year: 2022 (announced 3 November 2022)[67]
See also
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