Toy Ungerer, a South African star who medaled at least three times at Sacramento worlds, was the queen of the sprints last weekend at her country’s masters nationals in Pretoria. She won the 100, 200 and 400 in great times of 15.66, 32.26 and 1:18.44. M80 Monty Hacker was the top male sprinter, clocking 15.47 and 31.55, and M45 hurdles world record holder Shaun Bownes fought a 1.1 mps headwind in running the 110s in 14.61. (He ran 14.38 in April). Also notable: W45 Adri Schoeman’s 200 in 25.71. The 2017 nationals will be at the new Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. See results from the May 13-14 meet.

Here’s a 2011 profile of Toy Ungerer via Google translation:

Toy Ungerer (Aletta du Plooy) who matriculated in Rooidakskool in 1963, and who start taking part in athletics at the age of 59 again after years, in July this year participated in Sacramento, California to the World Masters Athletics Championships in the 100, 200, and 400m sprints and long jump, where his two bronze, two silver medals, and new SA records achieved in the long jump and 400m.

Rooidak School can truly be proud of this old boy. She not only received the Sportswoman of the Year 2010 award of Masters Athletics in the SWD, but the South African title. She has twice SA Colours received in the six years participating side by master athletics and soon get to third South African colors. The numerous SA and SWD records to her name, and more gold medals than what she storage.

She is currently Chairman of Post SWD, set school children from all races while training with them, also does motivational talks about the ‘paradigm shift’ ‘that led to her successful career.

Toy was born in Kimberley on November 15, 1945. She is from birth called Toy, but because surnames tradition, she was, at the insistence of her father, Aletta du Plooy baptized. She said the only time she had heard this name was when her mother called out to her and she pretended not to hear.

Her first school years in Kimberley at West End Primary School . Athletics and gymnastics was already a great love, so much so that she even remember how ill she became after she once was in bed with measles and got up to take part in the meeting.

At the end of Grade 5 (Std 3) her father between Kimberley and Boshoff started farming. He had heard of this excellent coach, Mr. Ivor Potgieter enrolled on Boshoff and her at Rooidak. She says she has to this day, this excellent start out of the blocks as he had taught her. She remembered now how he had put his handkerchief on the ground, exactly where should have been her first steps and how, over and over again demonstrated how you get that first step was: BANG!

She remembers the seven wonderful years of her life she spent in Boshoff. UT PROSIM – THAT I AS UTILITY MAY BE will always stay with her ​​school’s motto.

Here athletics and netball her love and her father her biggest fan because he was an avid athlete. He drove around with her ​​that she had to participate.

After school she Oudtshoorn Teachers College, where she netball played, but no athletic as she was accustomed to running on a asbaan and only a turf (the football field) was. The college was established in athletics .

It’s also where she met her husband, Nico, is married and has a daughter and a son born of their marriage. She until the age of 37 no sport did not and when the kids got bigger, the games she started tennis.

They’ve been married 43 years and their two children were 41 and 34 years old. The oldest, their daughter, had two beautiful children, a daughter 17 and a son, 14. Their son was only recently married and has no children.

Nico, the Ford and Mazda dealer in Oudtshoorn and enjoy every moment of his day to work yet, because cars are his passion. He lives his dream, because since he came to his senses, he dreamed / played in the Motor Industry doing business, she said.