Kayle "Kyle" Blignaut (born 9 November 1999) is a South African athlete who specialises in the

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

. Blignaut won the gold medal at the

2018 IAAF World U20 Championships The 2018 World U20 Championships in Athletics, also known as the World Junior Championships, was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1999) which was held at Tampere Stadium ...

in Tampere. In May 2021 he threw a 21.21m personal best to meet the qualifying standard for the delayed

2020 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

during the USSA (South African Universities) Championships in Johannesburg. The throw put him fourth on the South Africa all-time list. He was selected for the shot put competition at the

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( hu, 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held from 19 August to 27 August 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The city of Budapes ...

in Budapest, but he did not qualify for the final.

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* * * 1999 births Living people South African male shot putters Athletes from Johannesburg Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for South Africa 21st-century South African people {{SouthAfrica-athletics-bio-stub