Johannes Christoffel Pretorius (born 29 January 1998) is a South African

rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

player for the South Africa national team and a

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player for the Emirates Lions in the

United Rugby Championship The United Rugby Championship (URC) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales. For sponsorship reasons the league is known as the Vodacom United Rugby Championship in ...

and the

Currie Cup The Currie Cup () is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces. Although it is the premier domestic competition, four South African franc ...

. His regular position is

flanker Flanker may refer to: * Flanker (perfume), a newly created perfume sharing attributes of an existing one * Flanker (rugby union), a position in rugby union (not found in rugby league) * ''Su-27 Flanker'' (video game), a 1996 computer game modelin ...

Biography

Pretorius represented the at the 2015 and 2016

Craven Week The Craven Week is an annual rugby union tournament organised for schoolboys in the Republic of South Africa. The tournament started in July 1964, and is named after the legendary Springbok rugby union player and coach Dr Danie Craven. The ...

tournaments — culminating in a call-up to the South Africa Schools squad for the Under-19 International Series in August 2016 — before moving to Pretoria to join the . He was named in the ' wider training squad prior to the

2019 Super Rugby season The 2019 Super Rugby season was the 24th season of Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR between teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. The 2019 season was the second season using the ...

, but was also included in the South Africa national sevens squad prior to the

2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series The 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 20th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World R ...

. In January 2019, Pretorius was named the Blitzboks' travelling reserve for the Hamilton Sevens, and a week later, he was included in the main squad for the Sydney event. In 2022, He was part of the South African team that won their second

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

gold medal in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

References

South African rugby union players Living people 1998 births People from Govan Mbeki Local Municipality Rugby union flankers South Africa international rugby sevens players Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic rugby sevens players for South Africa Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games gold medallists in rugby sevens Lions (United Rugby Championship) players Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Golden Lions players 21st-century South African sportsmen Rugby union players from Mpumalanga {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-1990s-stub