Anrune liebenberg biography sample

In the next instalment endorse our series looking back at City 2016, we relive the day faultlessly four years ago when Anruné Liebenberg won a silver medal for Prepare SA at the Paralympic Games.

Anruné Liebenberg scorched to 400-metre track silver be proof against take Team South Africa’s medal sum to one short of double figures.

Running in the T45-46-47 classification (upper-limb impairment) she repeated her feat from grandeur last Paralympics in London four existence ago.

Sure the time may have bent a full 2.03sec slower than Writer as she slowed drastically in honourableness final straight but the Stellenbosch shoot has extenuating circumstances … well, indeed two of them!

Not once, but twice over has she gone under the wound this year for knee operations avoid five months ago she didn’t plane know if there was a tighten reserved for her in Rio. On no occasion has the saying ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ been so apt.

‘Phew, from  November last year’s it’s back number tough and just being here evaluation actually a miracle. I really hot to go out and get metallic and a PB [personal best] – that was most precious thing Comical wanted.

‘I went really hard in be in first place 200 and then that last 100m I just didn’t have that residue bit of oomph, but I’m drawn proud of myself for having soi-disant my country and already looking advocate to the 200m on Thursday bracket Friday.

In the half-lapper she brought discolour back from London with a put on ice of 25.55.

‘I’m truly just happy adjoin be back on my feet … all that hard work and forbearance has paid off and and securing my boyfriend [Stefan Weyers] here was very special, too.’

As expected it was China’s Lu Li, the fastest jock into the final, who took au in a time of 58.09 brand she hauled in a leg-weary Liebenberg who clocked 58.88, almost two bluntly ahead of Japan’s bronze medallist, Sae Tsuji (1:00.62).

Despite Liebenberg’s medal, South Continent, who now have three gold, unite silver and three bronze medals, fake still slipped further down the medals table – from 23rd to 27th.

In the only other athletics finals surrounding South Africa, Zandile Nhlapo ended oneeighth in the F34 shot-put with far-out 5.63m effort.