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South Africa are staying in the top 10 while competing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to April 15, 2018.
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that is currently being held in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018.
SASCOC named a powerful team to represent the rainbow nation at the Games. Team South Africa athletes will do battle across 16 codes, including para-sports athletics, lawn bowls, swimming, table tennis and powerlifting.
Sporting codes with South African participation are the following: athletics, badminton, bowls, boxing, cycling (mountain bike, road, track), gymnastics, hockey, netball, rugby sevens, shooting, table tennis, triathlon, weightlifting and wrestling.
Other team sports will see women’s rugby sevens, men’s and women’s hockey sides and the women’s netballers in action while there are also team disciplines in track cycling and triathlon.
“As SASCOC we’re very excited to deliver this team for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games,” says SASCOC President Gideon Sam.
“Many hours of planning have gone into preparing this team.”
South Africa has 196 competitors at the games and we’re are racking up medals at every stage. We will be updating this article as the games progress.
Calvyn Justus, Cameron van der Burgh, Chad le Clos, Brad Tandy – swimming Men’s 4 × 100-metre medley relay (April 10)
Sunette Viljoen – women’s javelin (April 11)
Reinhardt Hamman – men’s F38 shot put (April 11)
Ruswahl Samaai – men’s long jump (April 11)
Alan Hatherly- men’s cross-country mountain biking (April 12)
Team South Africa – Open B6/B7/B8 Triples lawn bowls (April 12)
Wanda Nel – Women’s 400m Hurdles (April 12)
Sources: Commonwealth Games
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