Please enter your login details

You can also sign in with your Sowetan LIVE &
Business LIVE account details.
   Sign Up   Forgot password?

Sign in with:
 
Sat May 26 15:37:24 SAST 2012

A race with a difference

Swimmers make it a rich medal haul at the Games

Sapa | 07 September, 2011 00:40
Swimming Day Thirteen - 14th FINA World Championships
Karin Prinsloo of South Africa competes in heat three of the Women's 100m Freestyle heats during Day Thirteen of the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center on July 28, 2011 in Shanghai, China
Image by: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images

Save & Share

South African swimmers added 11 medals on Monday to the four won by the triathletes at the Africa Games in Maputo.

They captured five gold, three silver and three bronze medals.

Karin Prinsloo won the 100m freestyle and 50m backstroke, in which Mandy Loots won silver. She was also part of the winning women's 4x200m freestyle relay with Rene Warnes, Dominique Dryding and Roxanne Tammadge.

Cameron van der Burgh won the men's 100m breaststroke and Charl Crous took gold in the 50m backstroke, with Garth Tune taking third place in the backstroke.

Cathryn Meaklim took silver behind Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry in the 400m individual medley, with Bianca Meyer getting bronze.

Darian Townsend got silver in the men's 200m freestyle behind winner Ahmed Mathlouthi of Tunisia. Jean Basson clinched bronze. On the soccer field, South African women's team Banyana Banyana beat Zimbabwe 4-1 in a Group B match.

SHARE YOUR OPINION

If you have an opinion you would like to share on this article, please send us an e-mail to the Times LIVE iLIVE team. In the mean time, click here to view the Times LIVE iLIVE section.