1904 Summer Olympics / Participant (South Africa)

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South Africa took part in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis , United States of America , with a delegation of eight athletes (all men) in two competitions in two sports. No medals could be won. It was the country's first Summer Olympics participation .

Participants by sport

athletics

• Bertie Harris
  • marathon

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

• Jan Mashiani
  • marathon

  Final: Twelfth place

• Len Taunyane
  • marathon

  Final: ninth place

Tug of war

Boer team

• Results

  Quarterfinals: Eliminated against US team Milwaukee AC

  Fifth place

• team

  Pieter Hillense

  Pieter Lombard

  Johannes Schutte

  Paulus Visser

  Christopher Walker

Web links

• 1904 South African Olympic Team in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )