Hendrik Beltsazer Hart (2 September 1905 – 10 November 1979)[1] was a South African athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

[5][6] Shortly afterwards he finished tenth in the Olympic shot put event, eleventh in the decathlon competition, and twelfth in the discus throw contest.

Four years later at the 1934 British Empire Games he won again the gold medal in the discus throw event as well as in the shot put competition.

He was friends with Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Johnny Weissmuller and Blackie Swarts (at that time a cowboy actor and later the first president of South Africa).

He had a study-trophy room at his hotel where there were hundreds of photographs of himself in the company of the above-mentioned and Esther Williams, Maureen O'Sullivan and others.