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Gouws
Gouws is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Johannes Gouws (1919–1944), South African Air Force officer * Liezel Gouws (born 1999), South African Paralympic athlete * Pierre Gouws (born 1960), Zimbabwean cyclist *Rowan Gouws Rowan Petrus Christiaan Gouws (born ) is a South African rugby union player who currently plays for Rugby ATL of Major League Rugby (MLR) in the United States. His regular position is scrum-half. He previously played for the in the Currie Cu ... (born 1995), South African rugby union player See also * Gouw {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Gouws
Johannes Gouws (13 August 1919 – 29 March 1944), was a fighter pilot from South Africa who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. Notable for his part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 when he almost reached Switzerland but was one of the men recaptured and subsequently murdered by the ''Gestapo''. Pre-war life Gouws was born in Bultfontein, South AfricaAndrews (1976), p.205 the eldest son of an Afrikaans speaking farming family of Boer tradition. His boyhood ambition was to join the British South Africa Police. He was educated at the farm school and later Bultfontein High School where he was a keen athlete and captained the school rugby football team when it toured Cape Province in 1937.:af:Johannes Gouws, Johannes Gouws [Biographical material - Johannes Gouws]Vance (2000), p.127 He graduated from school that year and joined the Special Service Battalion a training unit for boys wishing to join the military. He applied for the South African Air Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowan Gouws
Rowan Petrus Christiaan Gouws (born ) is a South African rugby union player who currently plays for Rugby ATL of Major League Rugby (MLR) in the United States. His regular position is scrum-half. He previously played for the in the Currie Cup and the Rugby Challenge. Rugby career Schoolboy rugby Gouws was born in Richards Bay, but grew up in Mpumalanga, where he attended Hoër Tegniese Skool Middelburg. He represented the local rugby union, the at the Under-13 Craven Week in 2008, the Under-16 Grant Khomo Week in 2011 and the Under-18 Craven Week held in Polokwane in 2013. Sharks After school, he moved to Durban to join the academy. He played for their Under-19 team in the 2014 Under-19 Provincial Championship and for their Under-21 team in the Under-21 Provincial Championships in 2015 and 2016. He also played in the 2015 Varsity Shield competition with the . He made his first class debut in the 2016 Currie Cup qualification series, coming on as a replacement in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liezel Gouws
Liezel Gouws (born 1998) is a South African female Paralympic athlete and a world record holder of 800m event under T37 classification for women (2:42.39) which was set in 2015 at Johannesburg, South Africa during the national Championships. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She was also part of team South Africa for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games where she finished fifth in the 400m final. Biography Gouws was born in 1998 not as a disabled child in Klerksdorp. Gouws had to confront cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensa ... which was resulted due to a stroke she had in 2004, when she was just five years old. She sees her recovery process and abilities that she has today as miracle on miracle. There were doctors who gave her just two year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gouws
Zimbabwe competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 29 competitors, 23 men and 6 women, took part in 38 events in 10 sports. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Archery After not competing in the 1984 archery competition, Zimbabwe returned in 1988. Women's Individual Competition: * Merrellyn Tarr — Preliminary Round (→ 62nd place) Men's Individual Competition: * Paul Bamber — Preliminary Round (→ 60th place) * Alan Bryant — Preliminary Round (→ 72nd place) * Wrex Tarr — Preliminary Round (→ 78th place) Men's Team Competition: * Bamber, Bryant, and Tarr — Preliminary Round (→ 21st place) Athletics Men's 400 metres * Elijah Nkala :* Heat — 46.60 (→ did not advance) Men's 10.000 metres * Stanley Mandebele :* Heat — 29:50.99 (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * James Gombedza — 2"38.13 (→ 72nd place) Women's Marathon * Linda Hunter — 2"53.17 (→ 55th place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
