Anrune Weyers

Anrune Weyers (née Liebenberg, born 3 November 1992), is a South African para-athlete. She took up athletics in 2010. Weyers was born with a congenital defect in her left arm[1] and competes in the T47 disability class. At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships she came second in the 400 m and sixth in the 200 m. In 2012, she won two medals at the London Paralympics, namely silver in the 400 m and bronze in the 200 m.[2] Later that year these medals were stolen while she was travelling from George airport in the Western Cape.[3] At the 2013 IPC World Championships she came second in both the 200 m and the 400 m.[2]

Anrune Weyers

Weyers (left) at the 400m T46 medal ceremony at the 2012 Paralympics
Personal information
Nationality	South African
Born	(1992-11-03) November 3, 1992 Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Disability class	T47
Medal record Representing  South Africa Paralympic Games 2020 Tokyo T47 400 m 2012 London T46 400 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro T47 400 m 2016 Rio de Janeiro T47 200 m 2012 London T46 200 m IPC Athletics World Championships 2015 Doha T47 400 m 2019 Dubai T47 400 m 2011 Christchurch T46 400 m 2013 Lyon T46 200 m 2013 Lyon T46 400 m 2017 London T47 200 m 2019 Dubai T47 200 m 2015 Doha T47 200 m
Updated on 28 August 2021.

At the 2015 IPC World Championships, she won the 400 m, and at the 2016 Rio Paralympics she won silver in both the 200 m and 400 m. Weyers won gold in the 400 m,[4] silver in the 200 m and bronze in the 100 m at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, and set the world record of 55.60 s for the 400 m at the Flanders Cup in Huizengin, Belgium in August 2019.[5][6]

Weyers won gold in the 400 m T47 in Tokyo in 2021 (her third Paralympics) in a season's best time of 56.05 s.[7]