This is dubbed as the best performance by the SA team in the Olympics as they brought home 10 medals – two gold, six silver and two bronze. The class of 2016 equalled the nation's highest tally of 10 medals achieved at previous Olympics twice before at Helsinki in 1952 and Antwerp in 1920.
The minister of sports Fikile Mbalula called the team a “bunch of winners” and also announced that he would be increasing the reward for each medallist‚ in addition to the R500 000 incentive for gold‚ R250 000 for silver and R100 000 for bronze already pledged.
Top 10 performances:
Wayde van Niekerk 400m gold – world record holder with a time of 43.03 sec
Caster Semenya 800m gold broke the national record with a time of 1:55:28
Lawrence Brittain, Shaun Keeling men's pairs silver
Luvo Manyonga Long jump silver
Chad Le Clos 200m freestyle silver
Cameron van der Burgh 100m breaststroke silver
Chad Le Clos 100m butterfly silver
Sunette Viljoen javelin silver
Henri Schoeman men's triathlon bronze
BlitzBoks Rugby sevens bronze
See pictures below:
Excellence rewarded
Minister Fikile Mbalula with Rugby Blitz Bokke team
Caster and the rugby team
O. R. Tambo
SA United
Joyous moments
Pictures: Twitter
