Sascoc named a powerful team to represent the rainbow nation at the
2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia between 4 to 15 April.
We definitely ‘shared the dream’ by holding the fifth positon in the medals table with a total of 37 medals – our athletes surely did us proud. Our athletes battled it out across 16 codes, including paralympics sports athletics, lawn bowls, swimming, table tennis and powerlifting.
Total medals won by South Africa
Gold medals: 13
Silver medals: 11
Bronze medals: 13
Gold medal winners
Henri Schoeman – men’s triathlon
Tatjana Schoenmaker – women’s 200m breaststroke
Chad le Clos – men’s 200m butterfly
Chad le Clos – men’s 50m butterfly
Cameron van der Burgh – men’s 50m breaststroke
Tatjana Schoenmaker – women’s 100m breaststroke
Chad le Clos – men’s 100m butterfly
Akani Simbine – men’s 100m
Caster Semenya – women’s 1500m
Luvo Manyonga – men’s long jump
Ndodomzi Ntutu – men’s T12 100m
Martin Erasmus – men’s 97kg wrestling freestyle
Caster Semenya – women’s 800m
Silver medal winners
Chad le Clos – men’s 100m freestyle
Esme Kruger, Nicolene Neal, Johanna Snyman and Elma Davis – women’s fours lawn bowls
Dylan Buis – men’s T38 100m
Christian Sadie – men’s S6 50m freestyle
Henricho Bruintjies – men’s 100m
Brad Tandy – men’s 50 freestyle
Princess Schreuder and Philippus Walker – lawn bowls mixed B2/B3
Johannes Botha – men’s wrestling 74kg freestyle
Hilton Langenhoven – men’s T12 100m
Nicolene Neal and Colleen Piketh – women’s lawn bowls pairs
Akani Simbine, Anaso Jobodwana, Henricho Bruintjies and Emile Erasmus – men’s 4x100m relay
Bronze medal winners
Ryan Coetzee – men’s 50m butterfly
Cameron van der Burgh – men’s 100m breaststroke
Colleen Piketh – women’s singles lawn bowls
Mona Pretorius – women’s 63kg weightlifting
Charl Du Toit – men’s T38 100m (WR time)
Team South Africa – men’s 4 x 100m medley relay
Sunette Viljoen – women’s javelin
Reinhardt Hamman – men’s F38 shot put
Ruswahl Samaai – men’s long jump
Alan Hatherly – men’s cross-country cycling
Christopher Patton, Tobias Botha and Willem Viljoen – lawn bowls triples B6/B7/B8
Wenda Nel – women’s 400m hurdles
Clint Hendricks – men’s cycling road race
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The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.
Here’s some interesting facts about the event that brings Commonwealth Games:
Where it all began…
The first official Commonwealth Games (called the British Empire Games) were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. It consisted of athletes from 11 countries competing in 59 events across six sports: athletics, boxing, lawn bowls, rowing, aquatics (swimming and diving) and wrestling. Interestingly, women only competed in swimming events.
Nations eligible to compete
The multi-sport event is attended by athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, an organisation of around 53 states that were former British Empire territories.
Source: www.forteachersforstudents.com.au/site/themed-curriculum/commonwealth-games/facts/
Share the dream
The slogan for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games is ‘Share the Dream’ and the mascot is a blue, surfing koala named Borobi.
Reaching for gold
A total of 275 gold medals were up for grabs in 2018 Commonwealth Games.
SA rating all-time tally of medals
South Africa was sixth in the All-time tally of medals, with an overall total of 280 medals (92 Gold, 92 Silver and 96 Bronze).
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