Simoné du Toit (born 27 September 1988) is a South African shot putter.
Her personal best throw is 17.13 metres, achieved in October 2005 in Naboomspruit. In the discus throw she has 53.07 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Roodepoort.
Career Du Toit's all time furthest throws include the furthest throw for a 13-year-old in the world. World leading distance in Morocco at the World Youth Games 2006. African Record in discus. Second best distance of all time in South African history in both events, shot put and discus.
Personal life Du Toit graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in December 2011. She achieved as an NCAA athlete and collected several C- USA athlete of the week awards. Du Toit was the recipient of the prestigious Student athlete of the year 2010 award for All sports at SMU.
She used to working at QuickBooks as the manager of HR and payroll. Nowadays she takes a more relaxing approach to life since being engaged to Henry Brown, a successful business man from Centurion, Pretoria. Du Toit also coaches athletics at Hoerskool Kempton Park. Her athletic group consist of about 20 athletes from which there are several SA champions.
Simoné has two sisters, Danell du Toit and Chane du Toit who both live in Kempton Park. Danell du Toit, age 16, goes to the same highschool that her eldest sister went to in Kempton Park.
Simoné's father, Boesman du Toit, an old Northern Transvaal and Transvaal rugby player, was also her coach.
Achievements Representing 2003World Youth ChampionshipsSherbrooke, Canada8thShot put14.14 m13th (q)Discus throw38.86 m2004World Junior ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy13th (q)Shot put15.16 m2005World Youth ChampionshipsMarrakesh, Morocco 1stShot put16.33 m 2ndDiscus throw52.10 m2006Commonwealth GamesMelbourne, Australia6thShot put16.52 mWorld Junior ChampionshipsBeijing, China4thShot put16.95 m6thDiscus throw52.39 m2007All-Africa GamesAlgiers, Algeria 2ndShot put16.77 mUniversiadeBangkok, Thailand4thShot put16.80 m2008African ChampionshipsAddis Ababa, Ethiopia5thShot put15.33 m 3rdDiscus throw47.10 m2009UniversiadeBelgrade, Serbia9thShot put14.75 m14th (q)Discus throw51.27 m2011UniversiadeShenzhen, China8thShot put16.78 m8thDiscus throw53.97 mWorld ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea24th (q)Shot put15.83 m
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