Llewellyn Herbert was born on this day

Llewellyn George Herbert was born on 21 July 1977 in Bethal, Mpumalanga.[i] Herbert was the South African 400 metre hurdle champion from 1996 to 2003.[ii] He earned a silver medal at the world championships in Athens in 1997.[iii] He also won a bronze medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2000 Olympic Games hosted in Sydney, Australia.[iv] Herbert participated in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.[v] He was known as the golden boy of South African athletics in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[vi] During the 2004 Olympic Games hosted in Athens, Greece, Llewellyn proposed to Pretoria model Letitia Roets.[vii] In 2015, Herbert made headlines after seminude photographs of him surfaced on the internet, these photographs proved especially controversial considering the fact the he was coaching at a high school, called Hoërskool Brandwag in Benoni, Gauteng.[viii] End Notes [i] Llewellyn Herbert, http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/llewellyn-herbert-1.html ↵ [ii] Llewellyn Herbert betrokke by Brandwag, http://benonicitytimes.co.za/169022/llewellyn-herbert-betrokke-by-brandwag/ ↵ [iii] Llewellyn Herbert betrokke by Brandwag, http://benonicitytimes.co.za/169022/llewellyn-herbert-betrokke-by-brandwag/ ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 141. ↵ [v] Llewellyn Herbert, https://www.olympic.org/llewellyn-herbert ↵ [vi] Johan Eybers. 2015. Seminude pics has former athletics golden boy cross the line as a teacher. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Seminude-pics-Has-former-athletics-golden-boy-crossed-the-line-as-a-teacher-20150614 ↵ [vii] Larry Lombard. 2004. SA athlete gets engaged in Olympic City. http://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-20-sa-athlete-gets-engaged-in-olympic-city ↵ [viii] Gabi Falanga. 2015. Llewellynm Herbert probed over photos, http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/llewellyn-herbert-probed-over-photos-1873143 ↵