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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. South Africa won six medals (one gold, three silver and two bronze), good for 44th overall in the standings.
The South African national rugby sevens team, commonly known as the Springbok Sevens, [1] competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. Overall, the team has won the World Rugby Sevens Series 4 times, as well as having won 40 tournaments in the series.
After the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa commenced in 1990, the nation re-joined the Olympic movement. 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).
Used in the IOC's medal database [5] to identify the team from Australasia, composed of athletes from both Australia and New Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920. COR Korea from French Corée: 2018: Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. [9] EOR Refugee Olympic Team
The South Africa national rugby sevens team qualified by advancing to the quarterfinals in the 2019 London Sevens, securing a top four spot in the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series. [24] Team roster. South Africa's 12-man squad plus one alternate was named on 6 July 2021. [25] Head coach: Neil Powell
In June 2024, he was selected for the South African team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [11] [12] On 9 August 2024, Walaza won an Olympic silver medal as part of South Africa's 4 x 100 metres relay team at the Paris Olympics while still only 18 years old, becoming the first South African to win an Olympic medal while still in high school. [2]
The South African field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics just before the match against Great Britain South African players celebrate their qualification for the London Olympics Glasgow 2014 — Kieran Govers (AUS) and Austin Smith (RSA)
South Africa men's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the third-place playoff of the 2015 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations. [26] Team roster. The following is the South Africa squad in the men's football tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team of 18 players was officially named on 14 July. [27] Head coach: Owen Da Gama