Simone du Toit, the 17-year-old world youth shot-put champion, added another South African record to her collection when she won the junior discus with an excellent distance of 53,07m at the 18th annual Noordheuwel Hoërskool Top 10 Schools athletics meeting at the Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort on Wednesday afternoon.
The winning distance was 83cm further than her previous record of 52,24m that she had achieved at the Athletics South Africa meeting at Stellenbosch less than a week ago.
It also eclipsed her 52,72m at a meeting in Germiston a year ago that was not officially ratified because the organisers did not adhere to the rules relating to new South African records.
The organiser of the meeting, Carel du Plessis, gave the assurance that all the rules had been adhered to and that the record application would be forwarded through the proper channels.
South Africa’s two other gold medal winners at the 2005 World Youth Championships also recorded good wins.
Shot-putter JP Hoffman won his event with a personal best put of 18,72m, while Noel Meyer impressed with a throw of 72,29m in the under-20 javelin. — Sapa