Help find missing former SA high jump champion
The family of missing Jacques Freitag (42) is appealing to anyone with information to come forward.
Former South African high jump champion Jacques Freitag (42) is missing.
His family has appealed to anyone with information on his whereabouts to come forward.
Sister Chrissie Lewis posted the plea to Facebook saying the family last saw Freitag on June 12, a day after his 42nd birthday.
Lewis, who is from Bronkhorstspruit, told Rekord that the family has no new information on his whereabouts.
“I went to open a police case on Monday, but we still don’t have a case number,” she said.
“We know nothing at this stage. We are trying to get hold of anyone who might have seen him.”
Freitag was last seen on the morning of June 17 in Booysens in Pretoria West.
She said she opened a case at Lyttelton police station, which she was told was transferred to Pretoria West SAPS.
At the time of speaking to Rekord on Thursday morning, Lewis said she had yet to receive a case number.
She said an unknown man had picked Freitag up at his mother’s home in Bronkhorstspruit.
Freitag won the World Youth Championships in Poland in 1999, World Junior Championships in Chile in 2000, World Championships in France in 2003, before competing in the 2004 Athen Olympic Games.
He is one of only 10 athletes to win the world championships at the youth, junior and senior levels.
Anyone with more information can dial 079 614 0996, or call the Pretoria West SAPS on 012 327 4907.
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