Jaco Engelbrecht

Jaco Engelbrecht

Personal information
Born	(1987-03-08) 8 March 1987
Education	University of Johannesburg
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	146 kg (322 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Shot put
Medal record Men's athletics Representing South Africa All-Africa Games Silver medal – second place 2011 Maputo Shot put Bronze medal – third place 2015 Brazzaville Shot put African Championships Silver medal – second place 2014 Marrakesh Shot put Gold medal – first place 2016 Durban Shot put

Jacobus Petrus Engelbrecht (born 8 March 1987) is a South African athlete specialising in the shot put. He has won several medals on continental level. In addition, he represented his country at the 2014 World Indoor Championships without qualifying for the final.

His personal bests in the event are 20.45 metres outdoors (Stellenbosch 2015) and 17.59 metres indoors (Sopot 2014).

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing South Africa
2011	Universiade	Shenzhen, China	7th	Shot put	18.97 m
	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	2nd	Shot put	18.89 m
2012	African Championships	Porto-Novo, Benin	4th	Shot put	17.91 m
2013	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	5th	Shot put	19.48 m
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	19th (q)	Shot put	17.59 m
	African Championships	Marrakesh, Morocco	2nd	Shot put	18.87 m
2015	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	6th	Shot put	19.20 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	25th (q)	Shot put	19.04 m
	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	3rd	Shot put	19.55 m
2016	African Championships	Durban, South Africa	1st	Shot put	20.00 m
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	27th (q)	Shot put	19.59 m

External links

• Official website