Chederick van Wyk (born 18 February 1995) is a sprinter from

Prieska Prieska is a town on the south bank of the Orange River, in the province of the Northern Cape, in western South Africa. It is located on the southern bank of the Orange River, 130 km north-west of Britstown and 75 km south-east of Maryd ...

, a remote and rural town deep in the

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in the

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of South Africa

Career

Van Wyk won the silver medal during

2019 IAAF World Relays The 2019 IAAF World Relays was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 11 to May 12, 2019. Two new events were established for 2019, both mixed events: the relay and the shuttle hurdles relay. The first event replaced the relay that featured at previou ...

, with the African record in the

4 × 200 metres relay The 4 × 200 metres relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 200 metres or half a lap on a standard 400 metre track. The event is a world record eligible event, but is not a standard event at most pr ...

. During the 2019 Universiade in Naples, he won two more silver medals, 100 m and 200 m, just behind

Paulo André de Oliveira Paulo André Camilo de Oliveira (often called Camilo to avoid homonymy, born 20 August 1998) is a Brazilian sprinter. In the 100 metres, he was a silver medalist at the 2019 Pan American Games, and a semifinalist in the World Athletics Champions ...

. Van Wyk was part of South Africa’s men’s quartet at the Tokyo Summer Olympic games in 2021 including Clarence Munyai, Shaun Maswanganyi and Akani Simbine. Munyai and Maswanganyi struggled to exchange and dropped the baton and therefore did not finish (DNF) the race and failed to progress to the final.

International competitions

Personal bests

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* 1995 births Living people Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games South African male sprinters Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade African Games competitors for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics African Games bronze medalists for South Africa African Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic athletes for South Africa 21st-century South African sportsmen Athletes from the Northern Cape {{SouthAfrica-athletics-bio-stub