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About Evette de Klerk
- Evette de Klerk (born 21 August 1965) is a South African former track and field sprinter.
- She was the dominant female sprint athlete in South Africa in the 1980s, winning 100 metres/200 metres doubles at the national championships ten years running from 1982 to 1991.
- She also took three South African titles in the 400 metres.
- These included championships records of 11.06 seconds (her lifetime best) for the 100 m and 22.36 seconds for the 200 m.Her personal bests in the short sprints both remain South African records for the distances.
- Her 200 m time of 22.06 seconds is the fastest recorded by an African athlete, but it is not the African record as it was not ratified by the continental governing body.
- That time ranked her second in the world over 200 m in 1989, behind Dawn Sowell.
- In addition to these marks, she set a best of 50.57 seconds for the 400 m.De Klerk did not compete internationally while at the peak of her career as a result of the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era.
- Her sole major international appearances for South Africa came in her last season at the top level (1993).
- She was a double bronze medallist at the 1993 African Championships in Athletics, reaching the podium in both the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay.
- She went on to represent South Africa at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics and was a semi-finalist in the 200 m.
- She had rejected offers to compete for Britain while the boycott was in place, as her fellow South African Zola Budd did.She briefly competed under a married name as Evette Armstrong in 1986 and 1987.Carina Horn equalled de Klerk's 100 m national record in 2015, some 25 years after it had been set.
- De Klerk remains the outright holder of the fastest in all conditions, via her wind-assisted run of 10.94 seconds in 1990.
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