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Pietersburg, South Africa 4 × 200 m relay: 1:32.72 South Africa Ina van Rensburg Mari-Lise Furstenberg Evette de Klerk Maryke Doubell: 9 March 1987 Bloemfontein, South Africa 4 × 400 m relay: 3:28.49 South Africa Caster Semenya Jeanelle Griessel Wenda Nel Justine Palframan: 26 June 2016 African Championships: Durban, South Africa [91] [92] 4 ...
Olympic Games: Saint-Denis, France [5] 200 m straight: 19.84 (+0.6 m/s) Wayde van Niekerk South Africa 4 June 2017 Boost Boston Games Boston, United States [6] 300 m: 30.69 A: Letsile Tebogo Botswana 17 February 2024 Simbine Curro Classic Shoot-Out Pretoria, South Africa [7] 400 m: 43.03 Wayde van Niekerk South Africa 14 August 2016 Olympic Games
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee was created in 1991, and South Africa returned to the Games at the 1992 Summer Olympics (and the 1992 Summer Paralympics). South Africa also participated in the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, and since 1994.
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) confirmed a team of 138 athletes, 93 men and 45 women, to compete across 15 sports at the Games. [9] It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, breaking its previous record of 134 athletes set in Beijing 2008.
South Africa 15 September 1999 1999 Games: Johannesburg, South Africa Pole vault: 4.35 m Miré Reinstorf South Africa 19 March 2024 2023 Games: Accra, Ghana [23] Long jump: 6.79 m Janice Josephs South Africa 21 July 2007 2007 Games: Algiers, Algeria [24] Triple jump: 14.70 m A: Françoise Mbango Etone Cameroon: 18 September 1999 1999 Games
South Africa competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-apartheid era and twenty-first overall in Summer Olympic history.
Akani Simbine (born 21 September 1993) is a South African sprinter specialising in the 100 metres event. [1] He was fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metres and was the 100 metres African record holder with a time of 9.84 seconds set in July 2021 until broken by Ferdinand Omanyala in September 2021.