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The first South African woman in the Olympics was swimmer Barbara Nash in 1920, and the first women to win medals were the 1928 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay quartet, who came third. [2] The South African Olympic and Empire Games Association was awarded the 1934 British Empire Games in Johannesburg but backed out when it became evident that ...
This is the complete list of women's Olympic ... South Africa: 1936 Berlin details ... since 1984, swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals ...
South Africa fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet event, by securing a berth as the highest-ranked pair, not yet qualified, from Africa at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, heralding the country's return to the sport for the first time since Barcelona 1992.
Her gold medal was the first gold medal won by an athlete from South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the first gold medal in an individual swimming event at an Olympic Games by a female South African since Penny Heyns at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] South African female artistic gymnasts have participated in three editions of the Summer Olympics, in 1960, 2004, and 2020. South African women have yet to win a medal at the Olympics.
South Africa (RSA) 28: 36: 31: 95: 3 ... Women's 80 m hurdles Gold: ... All-time Youth Olympic Games medal table; Sport in Africa; Paralympic sports; Paralympic Games;
Penelope ("Penny") Heyns OIS (born 8 November 1974) is a South African former swimmer, who is best known for being the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to have won both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events – at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games – making her South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medallist following South Africa's re-admission to the Games in 1992.
South Africa women's national rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing an outright berth at the 2023 Africa Women's Sevens in Monastir, Tunisia. Squad. South Africa's squad of 12 players was named on 29 June 2024. Additionally, Shiniqwa Lamprecht and Shona-Leah Weston were named as traveling reserves ...