He won the silver medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade behind Hezekiél Sepeng.
He was born in Potchefstroom and educated at Potchefstroom Boys High, where he was in the same class as South African boxer Sean Santana and the Zimbabwean mountain biker Warren Carne.
He was educated at Potchefstroom Boys High and graduated in 1994, he was in the same high school class as Zimbabwean cyclist Warren Carne and the South African 800m Atlanta Olympic Silver medalist Hezekiél Sepeng.
He relocated with his parents to South Africa in the late 1980s and graduated from Potchefstroom Boys High from the same class as the South African Olympic 800 metre runner Hezekiél Sepeng and the SA Heavyweight Boxer Sean Santana.