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Hestrie Cloete leads South Africa’s provisional
Paris squad
Athletics South Africa have announced their provisional
selections for the 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics,
Paris, France, 23-31 August 2003.
The team is lead by defending women’s World High
Jump champion Hestrie Cloete, who took the Commonwealth
Games and African Championships golds last summer, before
ending her season on a 2.02m winning high when beating
Sweden's Kajsa Bergqvist to the IAAF World Cup title
in Madrid last September.
Olympic bronze medal 400m hurdler Llewellyn Herbert
is the main name in the men's squad. However, despite
his extensive competitive pedigree, Herbert who is also
African champion is presently by no means the best South
African one lap hurdler. The likes of Ockert Cilliers
(48.61), World Junior champion Louis Van Zyl (48.89)
and Marnus Kritzinger (48.92), who have all beaten Herbert
in South Africa this year, have also been provisionally
selected for the Paris team, and of course one of these
four athletes will eventually have to be dropped when
the final three team places are decided.
1999 World and 1996 Olympic 800 metres silver medallist
Hezekiel Sepeng is the biggest omission from the provisional
squad, having achieved the qualifying standard but having
not competed during the South African domestic season.
"Hezekiel has not met all our criteria, although
he has run the qualifying standard," said Athletics
South Africa chief executive Banele Sindani. "I
don't know if he will be selected at a later stage,
it depends on the selectors and what happens between
now and then."
Men: 
100m
Sherwin Vries
200m
Mornè Nagel
400m
Marcus La Grange
Paul Gorries 800m
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
110m Hurdles
Shaun Bownes
3000m Steeplechase
Sivuyile Dlongwana
Alexander Motone
400m Hurdles
Ockert Cilliers
Marnus Kritzinger
Llewellyn Herbert
Louis Van Zyl
Pole Vault
Okkert Brits
Shot
Janus Robberts
Discus
Frantz Kruger
Women
100m
Geraldine Pillay
400m
Heide Seyerling
400m Hurdles
Surita Febbraio
High Jump
Hestrie Cloete
source Time-to-Run
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