Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (South Africa)

RSA

21st	3	6th

South Africa took 58 athletes to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the swimmer Natalie du Toit . She was also the most successful female athlete on the South African team with five gold medals. In the medal ranking, South Africa came in sixth as the best nation on the African continent.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table South Africa
space	sport				total
1	athletics	10	2	4th	16
2	swim	8th	-	1	9
3	horse riding	2	-	-	2
4th	Cycling	1	1	1	3
Total		21st	3	6th	30th

Participants by sport

athletics

Women

• Ilse Hayes , 1x (long jump, class F13), 1x (100 meters, class T13)
• Sarisa Marais
• Zanele Situ
• Chenelle van Zyl

Men

• Arnu Fourie
• Hilton Langenhoven , 3x (pentathlon, class P12; long jump, class F12; 200 meters, class 12)
• Fanie Lombard , 1x (discus throwing, class F42), 1x (shot put, class F42)
• Michael Louwrens
• Teboho Mokgalagadi , 1x (100 meters, class T35)
• Nicholas Newman , 1x (javelin throwing, class F35 / 36)
• Jonathan Ntutu
• Oscar Pistorius , 3x (100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters; class 44)
• David Roos , 1x (long jump, class F46)
• Marius Stander
• Duane Strydom
• Fanie van der Merwe , 2x (100 meters, 200 meters; class T37)
• Ernst van Dyk , 1x (marathon, class T54) (+ see cycling)

Powerlifting (bench press)

Women

• Moekie Grobbelaar

Cycling

Women

• Roxy Burns
• Susan van Staden

Men

• Gavin Kilpatrick *
• Riaan Nel , 1x (mixed single road race, class CP1 / CP2)
• Janos Plekker
• Michael Thomson *
• Ernst van Dyk , 1x (single road race, class HC C) (+ see athletics)

Team competitions

Men Sprint Class B&VI 1-3 (Bronze )
Gavin Kilpatrick Michael Thomson

horse riding

Women

• Philippa Johnson , 2x (compulsory individual, free freestyle individual, class IV)
• Marion Milne
• Kerry Noble

Men

• Mark Frenzel

Wheelchair basketball

Men
Siphamandla Gumbi Shaun Hartnick Jeremy Nel Richard Nortje Marius Papenfus Marcus Retief Nicholas Taylor Grant Waites Ralph Williams

Wheelchair tennis

Women

• Kgotso Montjane

Men

• Sydwell Mathonsi

rowing

Women

• Masego Mokhine
• Kim Robinson

Men

• Jarred Clarke
• Kevin you Toit
• Gordon Eddey

swim

Women

• Natalie du Toit , 5x (50 meters, 100 meters, 400 meters freestyle, 100 meters butterfly, class S9; 200 meters medley, class SM9)
• Emily Gray
• Beth Nothling
• Shireen Sapiro , 1x (100 meters back, class S10)
• Sarah Shannon
• Adri Visser

Men

• Charl Bouwer , 1x (400 meters freestyle, class S13)
• Achmat Hassiem
• Kevin Paul , 1x (100 meters chest, class SB9)
• Tadhg Slattery , 1x (100 meter chest, class SB5)

Table tennis

Women

• Alisha Almeida
• Alet minor

Men

• Johan du Plooy
• Pieter du Plooy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )