Reinach's 16 year old 400m record was only broken in March 1999 by the 400m athlete Arnaud Malherbe.
The other debutants in the Springbok team that day were Uli Schmidt, Gert Smal, Christo Ferreira, Jannie Breedt and Wahl Bartmann.
[2] Reinach died on Tuesday 21 January 1997, 20 days after his 35th birthday, when his car left the road outside Kroonstad and rolled.
According to a report which appeared in Beeld newspaper the next day, the accident occurred after 14:00 when Reinach drove through a puddle of water in the road between Kroonstad and Ventersburg.
Cobus, born on 7 February 1990, moved to Durban in 2011 where he coached rugby at Glenwood High School.