1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (South African Union)

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The South African Union participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , Netherlands , with a delegation of 24 athletes (18 men and six women).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Sydney Atkinson	athletics	110 meter hurdles

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Harry Isaacs	Boxing	Bantamweight
Rhoda Rennie , Frederica van der Goes , Marie Redford & Kathleen Russell	swim	Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Henry Lebanon

  Flyweight: 4th place

• Harry Isaacs

  Bantamweight: bronze

• Bobbie Smith

  Lightweight: 9th place

• Fred Ellis

  Welterweight: 9th place

• Alf Wilson

  Middleweight: 9th place

• Don McCorkindale

  Light Heavyweight: 4th place

athletics

• Willie Legg

  100 meters: 5th place

  200 meters: semi-finals

• Johannes Viljoen

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  110 meter hurdles: semi-finals

  Long jump: 38th place in qualification

  Triple jump: 24th place in qualification

  Decathlon: DNF

• Aubrey Burton-Durham

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: heats

• Sidney Atkinson

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  110 meter hurdles: gold

• Howard Kinsman

  200 meters: quarter-finals

• Danie Jacobs

  1,500 meters: heats

  10,000 meters: 20th place

• Matthew Steytler

  Marathon: 40th place

• George Weightman-Smith

  110 meter hurdles: 5th place

  Javelin: 21st place in qualification

  Decathlon: DNF

• Marjorie Clark

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, high jump: 5th place

Cycling

• Fred Short

  Road race, individual: 19th place

Wrestling

• Anton Praeg

  Middleweight, freestyle: 4th place

rowing

• Henri de Kok

  One: 2nd round

swim

• Kathleen Russell

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: bronze

• Zus Engelenberg

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: prelims

• Rhoda Rennie

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: prelims

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: prelims

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: bronze

• Frederica van der Goes

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: bronze

• Marie Redford

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: prelims

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: bronze

sailing

• Rupert Ellis-Brown

  12-foot dinghy: 12th place

Web links

• South African Olympic team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )