Hendrick Mokganyetsi
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Hendrick Mokganyetsi is a South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.

His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in September 2000 in Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

. He also has a strong personal best in the 800 meters, 1:44.62 minutes from 1997. Together with Jopie van Oudtshoorn
Jopie van Oudtshoorn
Jopie van Oudtshoorn is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.75 seconds, achieved in April 1999 in Germiston...

, Adriaan Botha
Adriaan Botha
Adriaan Botha is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.14 seconds, achieved in March 2001 in Roodepoort...

 and Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

 he holds the South African record in 4 x 400 meters relay with 3:00.20 minutes, achieved at the 1999 World Championships
1999 World Championships in Athletics
The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29....

 in Seville where South Africa finished fourth. http://www.gbrathletics.com/cm99.htm The South African relay team broke their own record of 3:00.26 min, achieved when they finished in fifth place at the 1997 World Championships
1997 World Championships in Athletics
The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997. In this event participated 1882 athletes from 198 participant nations...

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On the individual level he finished sixth at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney.

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