Career
Fourie"s best 1500m performance was 3:33.87, a time recorded at the Société Anonyme Championships in Stellenbosch in 1987 without significant opposition or pacemakers and his best mile time was 3:50.82 recorded in also 1987. During the mid-1980s he trained with Swiss star Pierre Deleuze in Europe. Deleuze, who defeated Sebastian Coe over 1500m in Zurich in 1985 believe that Fourie was capable of running a sub 3:30 1500m given the appropriate race conditions
Prevented from competing on international stage, he nevertheless managed to entertain athletics followers in the 1980s which has been characterised as a golden age of South African middle and long distance running.