Liezel Gouws (born 1998) is a South African female Paralympic athlete and a world record holder of 800m event under T37 classification for women (2:42.39) which was set in 2015 at Johannesburg, South Africa during the national Championships.

[2][3][4] She was also part of team South Africa for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games where she finished fifth in the 400m final.

Gouws had to confront cerebral palsy which was resulted due to a stroke she had in 2004, when she was just five years old.

Currently she competed at three World Championships and two Paralympic Games for South Africa.

Liezel Gouws started to involve in Para Athletics in 2012 and went on to make her international debut in 2013.