Cheswill Johnson Explained

Cheswill Johnson
Birth Name:Cheswill Johnson
Nationality:South African
Sport:Track and Field
Event:Long jump
Coach:Reneilwe Aphane
Pb:100 meters

10.18 (2023)
200 meters

20.66 (2024)
Long Jump

8.26 (2021)

Birth Date:30 September 1997

Cheswill Johnson (born 30 September 1997) is a South African athlete who predominantly competes in the long jump.[1]

He is a logistics/supply chain student at the University of Johannesburg.[2] Johnson jumped 8.20 in Johannesburg on 1 February 2020, which was the 9th longest senior outdoor long jump in the world in 2020.[3]

Johnson qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games when he leapt to 8.26m at the Athletics Gauteng North Bestmed Tuks Track and Field meeting in Pretoria on February 27, 2021.[4] When he made the jump it was the leading jump in the world that year.[5] Johnson joins fellow long-jumpers, African champion Ruswahl Samaai and Zarck Visser, in the South Africa Olympic squad, where he failed to register a jump in the qualifying round.[6] [7]

He won the long jump at the South African national championships in Pietermaritzburg in April 2024.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cheswill JOHNSON | Profile. worldathletics.org.
  2. Web site: News & Events - Long jumper Cheswill Johnson leaps into the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. www.uj.ac.za.
  3. Web site: Long Jump - men - senior - outdoor - 2020. worldathletics.org.
  4. Web site: Cheswill, a diamond discovered.
  5. Web site: Long Jump - men - senior - outdoor - 2021. www.worldathletics.org.
  6. Web site: Johnson jumps to Olympic qualification. SowetanLIVE.
  7. Web site: Simbine in SA Olympics squad, but no Caster or Wayde yet. May 27, 2021. ESPN.com.
  8. Web site: South African Championships. 20 April 2024. World Athletics. 18 April 2024.