Wayde van Niekerk Children: Does Wayde van Niekerk Have Kids?

Wayde van Niekerk was born on 15 July 1992 and is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 meters. In the 400 meters, he is the current world and Olympic record holder, having set the record in the Olympic finals. He also holds the world-best time in the 300 meters.

Van Niekerk was the silver medallist in the 400m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and took silver in the 4×400 meters relay at the 2013 Summer Universiade. He also represented South Africa at the 2013 and 2015 Athletics World Championships.

At the 2015 World Championships, he won the gold medal in the 400 meters. He defended his title two years later, in London, where he also won the silver medal in the 200 meters race.

In the 2016 Olympic Games men’s 400m, Van Niekerk won the gold medal with a world record time of 43.03 seconds (reaction time 0.181 s) at the age of 24 years and 30 days, beating the time of 43.18 seconds set by Michael Johnson during the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville, Spain.

In 2016, Van Niekerk became the first sprinter in history to have run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds, 200 meters in under 20 seconds, and 400 meters in under 44 seconds.

In 2017, after a 30.81 seconds victory in the seldom-run 300 meters distance, breaking Michael Johnson’s world-best time of 30.85 which was set in 2000, Van Niekerk became the only sprinter in history to have run sub-10, sub-20, sub-31, and sub-44 performances at 100m, 200m, 300m and 400m respectively.

Wayde van Niekerk Children: Does Wayde van Niekerk Have Kids?