Mpumelelo Mhlongo calls himself “blessed” but rarely has someone deserved things to go his way as they did for the 30-year-old at the 2024 Paralympics on Saturday night. If you held a secret poll ...
Team South Africa finished the 2024 Paralympics with six medals which placed them 46th on the overall table, with China topping the list with 220 medals (94 gold). For Team SA, Mpumelelo Mhlongo (T44 ...
Louzanne Coetzee doubled Team SA’s medal tally at the 2024 Paralympics when she won the bronze medal in the 1500m at the Stade de France on Monday morning. The race produced a world record for the T11 ...
Bronze medallist Pieter du Preez will carry the South African flag when the flame 2024 Paralympics come to an official end in Paris on Sunday night. Du Preez, a gold medallist in the H1 time-trial in ...
Such are the vagaries of the Paralympic classification system that Mpumelelo Mhlongo broke the world record in the T44 long jump at the Stade de France but only managed fifth spot in the field.
Puseletso Mabote cut a distraught figure as he attempted to digest his run in the final of the men’s T63 100m at the 2024 Paralympics inside the Stade de France on Monday night. Mabote, who had ...
The sunshine disappeared in Paris and rain clouds descended over the French capital but nothing could dampen Team SA’s spirits on Thursday. They started the day at the 2024 Paralympics with four ...
Donald Ramphadi and Lucas Sithole won the bronze medal in the quad doubles bronze medal match at Roland Garrios, giving Team SA their first-ever Paralympic wheelchair tennis medal. Ramphadi and ...
There was a changing of the guard in the T62 400m when Paul Daniels recorded a personal best and Daniel du Plessis announced his retirement after the final at the Stade de France in Paris on Friday ...
When you’re throwing a discus nearly 40 metres, six centimetres doesn’t sound an awful much but it is. Every centimetre counts and it was the margin thateventually decided the destiny of the women’s ...
Kirsty Weir emphatically proved that it’s not how you start but how you finish when she cut through the field to place eighth in the women’s PTS4 triathlon on Monday. The South African, who less than ...
There were two African records in the pool but no medals for Team SA on Tuesday at the 2024 Paralympics. They remain on two medals heading into Wednesday, following Mpumelelo Mhlongo’s T44 100m gold ...