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Natalie du Toit OIG MBE (/ d ʊ ˈ t ɔɪ /; [a] born 29 January 1984) is a South African swimmer.She is best known for the gold medals she won at the 2004 Paralympic Games as well as the Commonwealth Games.
Hassiem was born on 6 May 1982 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [1] He attended Bergvliet High School in Bergvliet, a suburb of Cape Town. [2]In 2006, his right leg was severed by a four-and-a-half metre long great white shark whilst he was training for lifesaving exams at Muizenberg beach with his brother Tariq; the lower portion of his leg was subsequently amputated.
Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tire still inflated) on the shoreline of Aye Island in the Andaman Sea, 3 km (2 mi) off the south-east coastline of Burma, which Lockheed confirmed to be from their Lockheed Altair, the Lady Southern Cross. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to it ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:South African swimmers. It includes South African swimmers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paralympic swimmers from South Africa .
Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics between South Africa and Iran. South Africa has competed at both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. The country made its Paralympic début at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan, where it sent nine athletes to compete in archery, athletics, swimming and weightlifting. They finished ...
South Africa sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China and finished 6th on the medal table. [1] Natalie du Toit, five time gold medallist at the Athens Paralympics in 2004, competed in six swimming events. [2] She also represented South Africa at the Beijing Olympics.
Three South African navy personnel died and a senior officer was in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off its deck by big waves as a helicopter was attempting ...
Kevin Paul (born 30 June 1991) is a South African Paralympic swimmer. Competing in the SB9-class 100 m breaststroke he won gold medals at the 2008 and 2016 Paralympics and a silver medal at the 2012 London Game.