Liezel Gouws


Liezel Gouws is a South African female Paralympic athlete and a world record holder of 800m event under T37 classification for women which was set in 2015 at Johannesburg, South Africa during the national Championships. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Biography

Gouws was born in 1998 not as a disabled child in Klerksdorp. Gouws had to confront cerebral palsy which was resulted due to a stroke she had in 2004, when she was just five years old.

Career

Liezel Gouws started to involve in Para Athletics in 2012 and went on to make her international debut in 2013. She broke the world record for the 800m event under the T37 classification in 2015. In 2016, she was awarded the Para Sportswoman of the Year.