
Tatjana schoenmaker
Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics winners rewarded by Toyota
Car manufacturer Toyota has rewarded South Africa’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists after the Tokyo Games 2020. #Tokyo2020
On Friday, sponsors Toyota gifted seven athletes with cash at a ceremony in Johannesburg.
Mike Sharman, founder of Matchkit, started the campaign to encourage local businesses to contribute towards the athlete's bonuses after it was initially thought Sascoc would not be paying to the duo following their exploits in Tokyo.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, Sascoc president, Barry Hendriks, said that reports that the governing body would not be rewarding Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag were wide of the mark.
Sascoc on Monday confirmed that Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag, South Africa’s only two medallists at the Games, would not be getting bonuses.
Schoenmaker and Buitendag were the only athletes from Team South Africa to win medals at the Tokyo games.
Olympic gold medallist Tatjana Schoenmaker is now back in South Africa and said that it was all still sinking in.
South Africa has picked up three medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo so far. We look at the two athletes who have stood tall on the international stage.
Despite the low medal total, it was a week that many South Africans will never forget as a few shining lights put their names on the world map.
Tatjana Schoenmaker announced herself on the Olympic stage in style when she smashed the women's 200m breaststroke world record to claim South Africa's first gold in the pool since 1996.
It made her the first female South African to win an Olympic swimming gold since 1996, when Penny Heyns swept the women's 100m and 200m breaststroke.
Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women's 200m breaststroke in a new world record time of 2:18.95.
The South African men’s hockey team celebrated their first points of the games. Mustaphaa Cassiem scored a fourth quarter winning goal to secure a 4-3 win over Germany and end their run of three successive defeats.
A new champion will be crowned in the 200m breaststroke with 2016 winner Rie Kaneto not competing, and it could well be SA's Tatjana Schoenmaker.
Tatjana Schoenmaker became the first South African woman to scoop up a medal in the pool in 21 years when she finished second in the 100m breaststroke final.
Tatjana Schoenmaker is South Africa’s first woman to get a medal in the pool in 21 years when she clinched silver in the 100 metre breaststroke final.
The 17-year-old swam a scintillating final 50m to touch in 1min 04.95sec and edge South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker (1:05.22) into second, with King having to settle for bronze in 1:05.54.
Swimming out of lane 5, Schoenmaker finished her heat in a time of 1:04.82 - beating American Lilly King's record from Rio 2016.
Armed with faith and cleansed of doubt and fear, SA's swimming sensation Tatjana Schoenmaker's breakthrough moment at the Commonwealth Games in Australia will live long in the memory.