Team SA comes away with improved medal haul at Paris Olympics
Team SA brought home 6 medals, improving on their performance at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where they won three medals.
Team South Africa at the Paris Olympic Games. Picture: @OfficialTeamRSA/X.
JOHANNESBURG – EWN looks back at Team South Africa’s athletes who medalled at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Team SA was made up of 150 athletes at Mzansi’s 21st appearance at the Olympics, from 26 July to 11 August, bringing home six medals, improving on their performance at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where they won three medals.
BELOW ARE THE MEDAL WINNERS:
Team SA won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics after beating Australia 26-19 at a packed Stade de France on Saturday night. Picture: @Blitzboks/ X.
RUGBY SEVENS
The team began their campaign with back-to-back losses to leave them on the edge of elimination, but they turned it around to finish third on the podium.
It was their second Olympic medal after bronze success at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.
Alan Hatherly won South Africa's first-ever mountain bike medal at the Olympic Games. A bronze medal a
ALAN HATHERLY
Alan Hatherly is a South African professional mountain bike racer. He won a bronze medal at the Paris Games, which is South Africa's first-ever mountain biking medal at the Olympic Games.
He is a three-time Olympian (2016, 2020, 2024). He finished 26th at Rio 2016 and then eighth four years later in Tokyo - the second-highest Olympic Games placing for a South African rider - Burry Stander was fifth at London 2012.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and Olympics swimming gold medalist, Tatjana Smith, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 29 November 2024. Picture: @PresidencyZA/X
TATJANA SMITH
Tatjana Smith won two Olympic medals in Paris, adding to the gold and silver she had scooped at the Tokyo Games, where she won the 200m gold and the 100m silver in breaststroke.
Smith became the country’s most decorated Olympian after winning a gold and a silver medal in Paris before announcing her retirement from swimming.
South Africa's Bradley Nkoana celebrates after competing in the men's 4x100m relay final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on 9 August 2024. Picture: Martin BERNETTI / AFP
BAYANDA WALAZA, SHAUN MASWANGANYI, BRADLEY NKOANA, AKANI SIMBINE
Sprinters Bayanda Walaza and Bradley Nkoana shone on the biggest stage, winning the silver medal in the 4x100m relay alongside star sprinter, Akani Simbine, and America-based athlete, Shaun Maswanganyi, at the Paris Olympic Games.
South Africa set a new African record with a time of 37.57 seconds, finishing just behind Canada, which clocked 37.50 seconds, while Great Britain took third place with 37.61 seconds.
Jo-Ane van Dyk won a silver medal in the javelin. Picture: joanevdyk/ Instagram.
JO-ANE VAN DYK
Jo-Ane van Dyk won a silver medal in the javelin, picking up South Africa’s sixth medal at the Paris Games.
The 26-year-old is coached by Terseus Liebenberg, who also guided Sunette Viljoen to a silver medal in the javelin at Rio 2016.
Van Dyk participated in her first Olympics in Tokyo, and there she was eliminated in qualifying with a best of 57.69m.