Nicolaas De Lange
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| Full name | Nicolaas Johannes Steyn De Lange | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sport wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nicolaas Johannes Steyn De Lange (born 23 August 2001) is a South African freestyle wrestler who currently competes at 97 kilograms. He is an African Championships and Commonwealth Games medalist.
Career
[edit]De Lange was the 2019 and 2020 African Junior Champion.[1] In August 2021, he won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Junior Championships in Ufa.[2] In May 2022, in El Jadida, Morocco, he lost to Mostafa Elders of Egypt in the final of the African Championships.[3] In early August 2022, in Birmingham, having lost in the final to Nishan Randhawa of Canada, De Lange won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[4][5] In May 2023, in Hammamet, Tunisia, he won a bronze medal at the African Championships.[6] In September 2023, at the World Championships in Belgrade, he lost to Russian Abdulrashid Sadulaev in the round of 32 and finished in 29th place.[7] In March 2024, at the Africa and Oceania qualifying tournament in Alexandria, he managed to win a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[8] He competed in the men's freestyle 97 kg event at the Olympics.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "de Lange, Nicolaas Johannes Steyn". Unitedwrestling.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Results of a sporstman". The-sports.org. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "African Championships 2022". UWW.
- ^ "Birmingham 2022 Results - Sport - Wrestling". 2022 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "Di Stasio, Randhawa golden on day two of wrestling as all Canadian wrestlers earn medals". Wrestling.ca. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "African Championships 2023". UWW.
- ^ "Athletes-Results". Uww.org. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "Olympians gear up for African & Oceania qualifiers for Paris 2024". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Nicolaas de Lange at the International Wrestling Database
- Nicolaas de Lange at the International Wrestling Database
- 2001 births
- Living people
- South African male sport wrestlers
- African Wrestling Championships medalists
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- White South African people
- Olympic wrestlers for South Africa
- Wrestlers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century South African sportsmen