Charlene du Preez
Charlene du Preez (née Roux; born 4 December 1987) is a professional road and track cyclist from South Africa.
Career
[edit]Initially a road cyclist, du Preez was introduced to track racing in 2015.[1] In 2018 she competed at the Commonwealth Games. In the Individual pursuit she finished 18th, and with the South African team in sixth place in the team pursuit.[1]
In Pietermaritzburg in 2019 she became the African 500 meters champion, the African keirin champion and the African Individual Sprint Champion.[2] In Cairo in 2020 she successfully defended all three of her titles and added the Team Sprint gold with Claudia Gnudi. She won all three individual titles again in 2021 for the third consecutive year. She holds 6 African track records.[3]
She competed in both the women's sprint and the women's keirin at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
Major results
[edit]- 2015
- KZN Autumn Series
- 6th Freedom Day Classic
- 6th Hibiscus Cycle Classic
- 2016
- 9th 94.7 Cycle Challenge
- 2017
- 3rd
Road race, African Road Championships - 2019
- African Track Championships
- 1st
500m time trial - 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st
- 2020
- African Track Championships
- 1st 500m time trial
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team sprint
- 1st
- 2021
- African Track Championships
- 1st 500m time trial
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cycling Track | Athlete Profile: Charlene DU PREEZ - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games".
- ^ "South Africa tops medal table at 2019 African Continental Track Cycling Champs". 23 January 2019.
- ^ "Charlene du Preez".
- ^ "Cycling Track - du PREEZ Charlene". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Charlene Du Preez at Cycling Archives
- Charlene Du Preez at ProCyclingStats
- Charlene Du Preez at Cycling Quotient
- Charlene Du Preez at Olympedia
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- South African track cyclists
- Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- People from Sasolburg
- Sportspeople from the Free State (province)
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for South Africa
- South African cycling biography stubs