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One South African archer qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's individual recurve competitions by virtue of his result at the 2023 African Continental Qualification Tournament in Nabeul, Tunisia. Werner Potgieter of the Western Cape ranked No. 1 with a score of 652 and went on to secure the spot for South Africa by winning the silver medal.
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 ...
South Africa (RSA) 28: 36: 31: 95: 3 ... All-time Olympic Games medal table; All-time Paralympic Games medal table; All-time Universiade medal table; ... IOC results ...
Albania, [11] Cape Verde, [12] Dominica, [13] and Saint Lucia won their nations' first Olympic medals. [13] The Refugee Olympic Team also won their first medal. [14] The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in ...
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.
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 table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.
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