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This is the list of Olympic medalists from African countries ... South Africa (RSA) 28: 36: 31: 95: 3 ... Women's 80 m hurdles Gold:
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 ...
Discipline (link to medalists list) Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold-silver-bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to 2022) Medal events (in 2022) Total Alpine skiing: Since 1936 19 11 167 168 165 500 Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2) Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2)
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.
For individual-based sports, South Africa marked its Olympic debut in golf (new to the 2016 Games) and equestrian dressage, as well as its return to diving and artistic gymnastics after a near decade of absence. Track and field accounted for the largest number of athletes on the South African team, with 39 entries.
South Africa at the 1996 Summer Olympics; IOC code: RSA: NOC: South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee: Website: www.sascoc.co.za: in Atlanta; Competitors: 84 (64 men and 20 women) in 14 sports: Flag bearer : Masibulele Makepula: Medals Ranked 27th: Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 5: Summer Olympics appearances
[23] [24] [25] Her world record was the first individual world record set in the sport of swimming at the 2020 Olympic Games. [23] 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 ...
Olympic bronze medalists for South Africa (62 P) Σ. South African Olympic medalist stubs (62 P) This page was last edited on 2 April 2013, at 16:04 (UTC). Text ...