Cornel Edwin Fredericks (born 3 March 1990 in

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) is a South African

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athlete who competes in the

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. His personal best for the event is 48.14 seconds. He was the

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list at the

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and came fifth in the final at the 2011 World Championships.

Career

In his earliest international outing, Fredericks won a

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in the

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and a

in the 400 m hurdles at the 2006

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. He was fifth in the 400 m event at the

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and improved to fourth place at the 2008 World Junior Championships. Later that year he ran at the

2008 Commonwealth Youth Games The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games (Hindi: 2008 कॉमनवेल्थ यूथ गेम्स), officially known as the III Commonwealth Youth Games, and commonly known as Pune 2008, a regional sporting event that was held from 12 to 18 O ...

, coming second in the 110 m hurdles and helping the South African

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team to fourth place. In his final year of junior competitions, he won both the hurdles events at the

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as well as a silver medal in the relay. He came second in the 400 m hurdles at the 2009 South African Championships behind Wouter le Roux and won the national universities title. As a result, he competed at the

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where he finished fourth in a personal best of 49.93 seconds. The 2010 season saw him established himself as a senior athlete. He won first national title in the 400 m hurdles with a clocking of 49.70 seconds. He improved his personal best several times that year, culminating in a run of 48.79 seconds to take the

at the

, completing a South African 1–2 alongside the event winner L.J. van Zyl. Fredericks was beaten by van Zyl at the 2011 South African Championships, but left the competition with a significant improvement on his personal best (48.14 seconds). On the circuit he was runner-up at the

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meeting and won in

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and at the

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. Fredericks entered the

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as the fifth fastest 400 m hurdler of the year and he matched this ranking with a fifth-place finish in the 400 m hurdles world final. He regained his national title in 2012, and then won it again in 2013 and 2014. In 2012 Fredericks's coach Bruce Longden died, and Fredericks suffered a hamstring tear in the heats of the

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. In July 2014, he won the gold medal in the

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, and then in August, he won the

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in the 400 m hurdles. That year he also won the 400 m hurdles at the Continental Cup, and ran the second fastest time that year (48.25). His 2015 season was blighted by an achilles injury and a hamstring tear, which caused him to withdraw from the World Championships.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fredericks, Cornel Living people 1990 births South African male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of South Africa People from Worcester, South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics IAAF Continental Cup winners Sportspeople from the Western Cape Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games