| Zenéy Geldenhuys | |
| Birth Name: | Zenéy van der Walt |
| Birth Date: | 22 May 2000 |
| Birth Place: | Pretoria, South Africa |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | 400 m, 400 m hurdles, 4×400 m relay |
Zenéy Geldenhuys (née van der Walt; born 22 May 2000) is a South African athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2022 African Champion, and in the 400 metres. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2022 African Champion with the South African women's team.
She also won gold medals at the 2017 World U18 Championships and the 2018 World U20 Championships. In 2019, she won a silver medal at the Universiade.[1]
Zenéy van der Walt was born on 22 May 2000 in Pretoria, South Africa.[2]
She started practising athletics around the age of six.[3] [4]
As of 2022, she was studying education at the University of Pretoria.[3] [4]
Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[5]
| Type | Event | Time | Venue | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoor | 200 metres | 23.84 | Celle Ligure, Italy | 19 July 2023 | (Wind: +0.5 m/s) |
| 300 metres | 36.62 | Pretoria, South Africa | 18 February 2023 | ||
| 400 metres | 50.81 | Pretoria, South Africa | 12 April 2023 | ||
| 100 metres hurdles | 14.05 | Pretoria, South Africa | 4 March 2023 | (Wind: +0.7 m/s) | |
| 400 metres hurdles | 54.47 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 6 August 2022 |
| Year | 200 m | 400 m | 400 m hurdles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55.67 | ||||
| 2016 | 55.10 | 59.31 | |||
| 2017 | 24.95 | 55.34 | 57.94 | ||
| 2018 | 24.55 | 55.05 | |||
| 2019 | 25.27 | 52.89 | 55.73 | ||
| 2020 | |||||
| 2021 | 23.93 | 52.94 | 55.89 | ||
| 2022 | 24.03 | 51.90 | bgcolor=#cfc | 54.47 | |
| 2023 | 23.84 | bgcolor=#cfc | 50.82 | 54.82 | |
| 2024 | bgcolor=#cfc | 23.34 | 51.71 | 54.72 |
Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[5]
| 2017 | World U18 Championships | Nairobi, Kenya | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 58.23 | |
| 2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 55.34 | |
| 2019 | Universiade | Naples, Italy | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m hurdles | 55.73 | |
| 7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:35.97 | |||||
| African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 4th | 400 m hurdles | 57.67 | |||
| 5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:41.17 | |||||
| World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 31st (h) | 400 m hurdles | 57.11 | |||
| 2022 | African Championships | Port Louis, Mauritius | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 56.00 | |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:29.34 | ||||
| World Championships | Eugene, United States | 16th (sf) | 400 m hurdles | 54.81 | |||
| 14th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:46.68 | |||||
| Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3rd | 400 m hurdles | 54.47 | |||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 21st (sf) | 400 m | 51.54 | ||
| 21st (sf) | 400 m hurdles | 55.49 | |||||
| 2024 | Summer Olympics | Paris, France | 400 m hurdles | (qualified for the semi-finals) |