1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (South Africa)

RSA

3	1	1

South Africa participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , USA , with a delegation of 84 athletes (64 men and 20 women).

Medalist

With three won gold, a silver and a bronze medal, the South African team finished 27th place in the medal table .

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Josiah Thugwane	athletics	marathon
Penelope Heyns	swim	Women, 100 meters breast women, 200 meters breast

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Hezekiél Sepeng	athletics	800 meters

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Marianne Kriel	swim	Women, 100 meters back

Participants by sport

Archery

• Kirstin Lewis

  Women, singles: 30th place

  Women, team: 11th place

• Jill Börresen

  Women, singles: 59th place

  Women, team: 11th place

• Leanda Hendricks

  Women, singles: 61st place

  Women, team: 11th place

Boxing

• Masibulele macepula

  Light flyweight: 9th place

• Philip Ndou

  Featherweight: 9th place

• Irvin Buhlalu

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Victor Kunene

  Light middleweight: 17th place

• Sybrand Botes

  Light heavyweight: 9th place

hockey

• Men's team

  10th place

• Squad

  Brian Myburgh

  Brad Milne

  Shaun Cooke

  Craig Jackson

  Craig Fulton

  Brad Michalaro

  Gregg Clark

  Gary Boddington

  Alistar Fredericks

  Wayne Graham

  Kevin Chree

  Charles Teversham

  Greg Nicol

  Matthew Hallowes

  William Fulton

  Murray Anderson

Judo

• Duncan MacKinnon

  Half light weight: 9th place

canoe

• Ruth Nortje

  Women, single kayak, 500 meters: semifinals

athletics

• Alfred Visagie

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: semi-finals

• Arnaud Malherbe

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 meters: semi-finals

• Bobang Phiri

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 meters: semi-finals

• Hendrick Mokganyetsi

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 meters: semi-finals

• Hezekiél Sepeng

  800 meters: silver

• Johan Botha

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Marius van Heerden

  800 meters: heats

• Shadrack Hoff

  5,000 meters: semi-finals

• John Morapedi

  5,000 meters: semi-finals

• Hendrick Ramaala

  10,000 meters: heats

• Josiah Thugwane

  Marathon: gold

• Lawrence Peu

  Marathon: 27th place

• Gert Thys

  Marathon: 33rd place

• Llewellyn Herbert

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Shadrack Mogotsi

  3,000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Riaan Botha

  Pole vault: 14th place

• Occert Brits

  Pole vault: Eliminated in qualification

• François Fouché

  Long jump: 38th place in qualification

• Gwen Griffiths

  Women, 1,500 meters: 9th place

• Colleen De Reuck

  Women, 10,000 meters: 13th place

• Elana Meyer

  Women, marathon: ??

• Karen van der Veen

  400 meter obstacle: prelims

Modern pentathlon

• Claud Cloete

  Individual: 15th place

Cycling

• Doug Ryder

  Road race: 61st place

• Blayne Wikner

  Road race: 97th place

• Jean-Pierre van Zyl

  Sprint: 2nd round

  1,000 meter time trial: 5th place

• David George

  4,000 meters individual pursuit: 15th place

  Points race: ??

• Erica Green

  Women, road races: 35th place

  Women, mountain bikes, cross-country: 17th place

• Jackie Martin

  Women, road races: 42nd place

Wrestling

• Well, you Plessis

  Featherweight, freestyle: 18th place

rowing

• Greg Bayne

  Two without a helmsman: 16th place

• John Callie

  Two without a helmsman: 16th place

• Roger Tobler

  Four without a helmsman: 9th place

• Mark Rowand

  Four without a helmsman: 9th place

• Gareth Costa

  Four without a helmsman: 9th place

• Mike Hasselbach

  Four without a helmsman: 9th place

• Helen Fleming

  Two without a helmsman: 11th place

• Colleen Orsmond

  Two without a helmsman: 11th place

shoot

• Jaco Henn

  Small caliber, three-position battle: 22nd place

  Small caliber, lying: 26th place

• Mel Hains

  Skeet: 45th place

swim

• Brendon Dedekind

  50 meter freestyle: 5th place

  100 meters freestyle: 26th place

• Ryk Neethling

  400 meters freestyle: 11th place

  1,500 meters freestyle: 5th place

• Marianne Kriel

  Women, 50 meters freestyle: 24th place

  Women, 100 meters back: bronze

  Women, 200 meters back: 16th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 4th place

• Heleen Muller

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: 33rd place

  Women, 200 meters freestyle: 30th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 4th place

• Penelope Heyns

  Women, 100 meters chest: gold

  Women, 200 meters chest: gold

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 4th place

• Julia Russell

  Women, 100 meters chest: 18th place

  Women, 200 meters chest: 12th place

  Women, 200 meter medley: 27th place

• Mandy Loots

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: 30th place

  Women, 200 meters butterfly: 30th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: 4th place

sailing

• Ian Ainslie

  Finn dinghy: 8th place

• Dave Hibberd

  Laser: 16th place

• Bruce Savage

  Soling: 17th place

• Dick Mayhew

  Soling: 17th place

• Clynton Wade

  Soling: 17th place

tennis

• Wayne Ferreira

  Singles: 5th place

• Marcos Ondruska

  Individual: 17th place

  Doubles: 5th place

• Ellis Ferreira

  Doubles: 5th place

• Mariaan de Swardt

  Women, singles: 17th place

  Women, doubles: 9th place

• Amanda Coetzer

  Women, singles: 17th place

  Women, doubles: 9th place

• Joannette Kruger

  Women, singles: 33rd place

Web links

• South African Olympic team from 1996 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )