Joining them for the first time at a World Championship is Ruan Greyling, currently the number 3 ranked athlete in the world in the 400m, Mpho Maphutha, who in 2011 became the youngest South African athlete ever to jump 8.00m, Bernard Pretorius, currently ranked number 5 in the world in the 400m hurdles, Simone Meyer, the heir apparent to Elizna Naudé in the discus and Janet Seeliger, one of four youth athletes to be included in the junior team (Boer also being a youth athlete).  

We wish them all the best.