| Anrune Weyers | |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Birth Date: | 3 November 1992 |
| Birth Place: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Disability Class: | T47 |
| Updated: | 28 August 2021 |
Anrune Weyers (née Liebenberg, born 3 November 1992), is a South African para-athlete. She took up athletics in 2010. Weyers was born with a congenital defect in her left arm[1] and competes in the T47 disability class. At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships she came second in the 400 m and sixth in the 200 m. In 2012, she won two medals at the London Paralympics, namely silver in the 400 m and bronze in the 200 m.[2] Later that year these medals were stolen while she was travelling from George airport in the Western Cape.[3] At the 2013 IPC World Championships she came second in both the 200 m and the 400 m.
At the 2015 IPC World Championships, she won the 400 m, and at the 2016 Rio Paralympics she won silver in both the 200 m and 400 m. Weyers won gold in the 400 m,[4] silver in the 200 m and bronze in the 100 m at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, and set the world record of 55.60 s for the 400 m at the Flanders Cup in Huizengin, Belgium in August 2019.[5] [6]
Weyers won gold in the 400 m T47 in Tokyo in 2021 (her third Paralympics) in a season's best time of 56.05 s.[7]
Weyers is a Christian. Weyers is married to Stefan Weyers.[8]