Rogail Joseph
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| Nationality | South African | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 April 2000 Worcester, South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72/5 ft 8 in | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400m hurdles: 54.12 (2024 Summer Olympics) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rogail Joseph (born 22 April 2000) is a South African track and field athlete who competes over 400m hurdles.[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Joseph is from a suburb called Roodewal located in Worcester in the Western Cape, and attended Worcester Gymnasium as well as University of the Western Cape and North-West University.[2][3]
Career
[edit | edit source]She won the South African U20 400m Hurdles title at the SA Champs on 6 April 2019, in Stellenbosch.[4] That month, she also won the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles titles at the 2019 African U18 and U20 Championships in Athletics, as well as the South African University Championships 400m hurdles.[5] She was nominated for Emerging Athlete of the Year at the 2019 G-Sport Awards.[6]
In April 2023, she finished third over 400m hurdles at the South African National Championships.[7] In August 2023, she competed at the World University Games, in Chengdu but was disqualified for an infringement.[8]
She won a gold medal in the 400m hurdles race at the 2023 African Games in Accra in March 2024 in a personal best of 55.39.[9][10] In April 2024, she finished runner-up at the South African National Championships 400m hurdles in Pietermaritzburg in a time of 54.84 seconds to secure the automatic qualifying time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[11] She subsequently competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024 where she ran a personal best time of 54.12 in the semi-final.[12]
She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, running 56.20 seconds without qualifying for the semi-finals.[13]
Personal bests
[edit | edit source]Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1]
Individual events
[edit | edit source]| Type | Event | Time | Venue | Date | Notes |
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| Outdoor | 200 metres | 23.67 | McArthur Stadium, Potchefstroom | 25 May 2024 | |
| 300 metres | 36.89 | McArthur Stadium, Potchefstroom | 6 February 2024 | ||
| 400 metres | 53.25 | McArthur Stadium, Potchefstroom | 10 April 2024 | ||
| 100 metres hurdles | 13.97 | Abidjan | 18 April 2019 | ||
| 400 metres hurdles | 54.12 | Paris, France | 6 August 2024 |
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- 2000 births
- Living people
- South African women hurdlers
- Sportspeople from Worcester, South Africa
- 21st-century South African sportswomen
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 African Games
- African Games gold medalists for South Africa
- African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- University of the Western Cape alumni
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for South Africa
- Medalists at the 2023 African Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for South Africa
- South African athletics biography stubs