Rugby injury to sideline Van Niekerk for months
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SOUTH Africa’s Olympic gold medalist Wayde van Niekerk will miss next year’s Commonwealth Games after suffering a serious knee injury in a celebrity tag rugby match, the sprinter said on Tuesday.
The 400-meter Olympic and world champion has travelled to Vail, Colorado, in the United States for surgery after he suffered medial and lateral tears of the meniscus, as well as a torn anterior cruciate ligament. The 25-year-old will undergo six months of rehabilitation in Vail, Doha and South Africa, his management company confirmed, which will rule him out of the Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast in April. Following the retirement of Jamaican Usain Bolt, Van Niekerk is keen to compete in the 100 and 200 as well as the 400, but will now have to put those plans on hold. Van Niekerk, who married his long-term girlfriend last weekend, was one of the major attractions at last year’s Olympic Games in Rio when he smashed the 400 world record with a time of 43.03, beating the long-standing mark set by Michael Johnson in 1999.
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