Kyle Rademeyer
South African athlete (born 2002)
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Kyle Rademeyer (born 29 January 2002) is a South African pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2024 African Championships and the silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.[1]
Rademeyer in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | South African |
| Born | 29 January 2002 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Pole vault: 5.73m (2025) |
Medal record | |
Biography
He is from Paarl in the Western Cape of South Africa but later studied in the United States at the University of South Alabama.[2] He won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.[3] He was selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England but had to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19.[4]
He won the 2023 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas with a clearance of 5.70 metres competing for the South Alabama Jaguars.[5][2] He competed for South Africa at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 21 years-old, and although he did not reach the final, Rademeyer missed out only by five centimetres, and was just one centimetre short of his 5.71m personal best in the qualifying round.[6] He was a gold medalist in the pole vault at the 2024 African Championships in Douala, Cameroon in June 2024.[7]
In February 2025 in Birmingham, Alabama he cleared a new personal best as well as setting a new school record, meet record and Sun Belt Conference record with a clearance of 5.73m in winning the Conference Indoor Championships for Southern Alabama.[8] He won his sixth first-team All-America NCAA honours after he cleared 5.61m to place fifth in the pole vault 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach to became the Jaguar Track athlete with the most NCAA honours in their programme history.[9]
He competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[10][11] On 1 August 2026, he cleared 5.70 metres to win the silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.[12]