South Africa At The 1996 Summer Olympics

South Africa competed at the ''' 1996 Summer Olympics ''' in Atlanta, Georgia under the IOC Country Code RSA ("Republic of South Africa"). It was the fourteenth time that the African nation participated.

MEDALS

Gold

Josia Thugwane — Athletics , Men's Marathon

Penny Heyns — Swimming , Women's 100 metres Breaststroke

Penny Heyns — Swimming , Women's 200 metres Breaststroke

Silver

Hezekiel Sepeng — Athletics , Men's 800 metres

Bronze

Marianne Kriel — Swimming , Women's 100 metres Backstroke

RESULTS BY EVENT

Archery

In South Africa's second appearance in Olympic archery, Kirstin Jean Lewis had the nation's only win. The other two archers, and the team in the team round, lost in the first round.

Women's individual:

Kirstin Jean Lewis — Round of 32, 30th place (1-1)

Jill Borresen — Round of 64, 59th place (0-1)

Leanda Hendricks — Round of 64, 61st place (0-1)

Women's team:

Lewis, Borresen, and Hendricks — Round of 16, 11th place (0-1)

Athletics

(24): Okkert Brits , Hezekiel Sepeng , Bobang Phiri , Shadrack Hoff , Hendrik Ramaala , Arnaud Malherbe , Gwen Griffiths , Karen V/d Veen , Shadrack Mogotsi , Johan Botha , Herman De Jager , Xolile Yawa , Adri De Jongh , Colleen De Reuck , Henrik Mokganyetsi , Marius Van Heerden , John Morapedi , Llewellyn Herbert , Francois Fouche , Alfred Visage , and Riaan Botha .

Men's Marathon

Josia Thugwane → 1st place (2:12.36)

Lawrence Peu → 27th place (2:18.09)

Gert Thys → 33th place (2:18.55)

Women's Marathon

Elana Meyer → Did not finish

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (48 kg)

Masibulele "Hawk" Makepula

# First Round — Defeated Thapa Debendra (India), referee stopped contest in first round (01:41)

# Second Round — Lost to Rafael Lozano (Spain), 3-14

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Phillip Ndou

# First Round — Defeated Casey Patton (Canada), referee stopped contest

# Second Round — Lost to Kamsing Somluck (Thailand), 7-12

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

Irvin Buhlalu

# First Round — Lost to Veongviact Phongsit (Thailand), 5-21

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Victor Kunene

# First Round — Lost to Pavol Polakovic (Czech Republic), 1-8

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Sybrand "Soon" Botes

# First Round — Defeated Rogelio Hernandez (Dominican Republic), 16-11

# Second Round — Lost to Enrique Flores (Puerto Rico), 7-16

Canoeing

(1): Ruth Nortje .

Cycling

(6): Jackie Martin , Erica Green , Blayne Wickner , Douglas Ryder , David George , and JP Van Zyl .

Hockey

The men's hockey team from South Africa finished in tenth position in Atlanta, after losing their last match (2-3) against Argentina in the classification match. The squad was made up by the following players: Grant Fulton , Kevin Chree , Gregg Clark , Allistar Fredericks , Gary Boddington , Wayne Graham , Charles Teversham , Brad Michalaro , Matthew Hallowes , Greg Nicol , Craig Fulton , Brian Myburgh , Brad Milne , Shaun Cooke , Craig Jackson , and Murray Anderson .

Judo

Duncan MacKinnon

Rowing

(8): Gareth Costa , Mike Hasselbach , Mark Rowand , Roger Tobler , John Callie , Greg Bayne , Helen Fleming , and Colleen Orsmond .

Modern Pentathlon

Claud Cloete — 5.308pts, 15th place

Sailing

(5): Ian Ainslie , Bruce Savage , Rick Mayhew , Clynton Wade-Lehman , and Dave Hibberd .

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

Brendon Dedekind

# Heat – 22.60

# Final – 22.59 (→ 5th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

Brendon Dedekind

# Heat – 50.95 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

Ryk Neethling

# Heat – 3:56.19

# B-Final – 3:54.34 (→ 11th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

Ryk Neethling

# Heat – 15:19.98

# Final – 15:14.63 (→ 5th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

Marianne Kriel

# Heat – 26.42 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

Helene Muller

# Heat – 57.98 (→ did not advance, 33th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

Helene Muller

# Heat – 2:05.59 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke

Marianne Kriel

# Heat – 1:02.33

# Final – 1:02.12 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 200m Backstroke

Marianne Kriel

# Heat – 2:15.99

# B-Final – 2:18.41 (→ 16th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

Penelope Heyns

# Heat – 1:07.02 (WR)

# Final – 1:07.73 (→ Gold Medal)

Julia Russell

# Heat – 1:10.87 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

Penelope Heyns

# Heat – 2:26.63

# Final – 2:25.41 (→ Gold Medal)

Julia Russell

# Heat – 2:32.44

# B-Final – 2:30.38 (→ 12th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

Mandy Loots

# Heat – 1:03.53 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

Julia Russell

# Heat – 2:20.40 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Marianne Kriel , Penelope Heyns , Mandy Loots , and Helene Muller

# Heat – 4:09.47

# Final – 4:08.16 (→ 4th place)

Shooting

(2): Jaco Henn , and Mel Hains .

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

Joanette Kruger

# First round — Lost to Young-Ja Choi (South Korea) 7-6 2-6 1-6

(6): Wayne Ferreira , Ellis Ferreira , Marcos Ondruska , Amanda Coetzer , and Mariaan De Swart .

Wrestling

(2): Andrew Davidson , and Tjaart Du Plessis .

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