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Cheswill Johnson
South African athlete (born 1997) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cheswill Johnson (born 30 September 1997) is a South African athlete who predominantly competes in the long jump.[1]
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Early life
He studied logistics/supply chain at the University of Johannesburg.[2]
Career
Johnson jumped 8.20 in Johannesburg on 1 February 2020, which was the 9th longest senior outdoor long jump in the world in 2020.[3]
Johnson qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games when he leapt to 8.26m at the Athletics Gauteng North Bestmed Tuks Track and Field meeting in Pretoria on February 27, 2021.[4] When he made the jump it was the leading jump in the world that year.[5] Johnson joins fellow long-jumpers, African champion Ruswahl Samaai and Zarck Visser, in the South Africa Olympic squad, where he failed to register a jump in the qualifying round.[6][7]
He won the long jump at the South African national championships in Pietermaritzburg in April 2024.[8] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9]
He was selected to compete in the long jump at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.[10]
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