Paralympian Simoné Kruger scoops gold, breaks African record at World Para Athletics Grand Prix
This event is the para-athletic equivalent of the Diamond League.
- Simoné Kruger
- World Para Athletics Championships
- South African Sports Association for the Physically Disabled (SASAPD)
Paralympian Simoné Kruger competing at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Olomouc, Cezh Republic. Picture: Andries Kruger/ Facebook.
JOHANNESBURG – Paralympian Simoné Kruger scooped a gold medal and set an African record at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix.
On Friday, the Maties student-athlete bettered her own South African and African record in the F37 shot put, winning gold with a distance of 12.14m
Kruger is currently competing at the Women’s Para Athletics Grand Prix in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
It is also the first time that Czechia has hosted a World Para Athletics Grand Prix.
This event is the para-athletic equivalent of the Diamond League.
The 20-year-old is a Paris 2024 gold medalist in the women’s discus throw F38 – also a world record holder in the event (38.82m) and two-time world champion (Kobe 2024 and Paris 2023).
This week, she will be in action in two events – women’s discus and women’s shot put F38.
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In March, the Paralympic gold medallist was awarded the Zanele Situ trophy for the best-performing athlete at the recent Winelands International Para Athletics Championships.
Earlier in the year, Kruger scooped the Sportswoman of the Year with a Disability at the Athletics South Africa Awards for the second year in a row.
Kruger represented South Africa at the Paris Paralympics and brought home one of South Africa’s six medals from the 2024 Games.
She dominated the women's F38 discus at the Paralympics, breaking the Paralympic record and winning South Africa's second gold medal with a throw of 38.70m.
In 2025, there are only nine events of Grand Prix and these competitions were already held in cities such as Dubai, Paris and New Delhi, with Olomouc becoming the very first Czech host in history.
The Olomouc event is the last competition of this year’s Grand Prix series and will be exclusively dedicated to women, an initiative of World Para Athletics to promote greater female participation in parasport.