For SA to improve its overall performance at next year's Games, the athletics team needs to break its drought. 🏃Read the story here 👇
Akani Simbine has led the charge for the SA athletics team in recent years, narrowly missing out on medals at the Olympics and the World Championships. Picture: Roger Sedres/Gallo Images
Since finishing third overall with six medals at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, led by double medallists Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya, the SA track and field team has not secured a medal at a major global championship. If the nation is to improve on the three medals achieved by the SA squad at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, however, the team is going to need track and field athletes to raise the bar and make a contribution.
In addition, South Africa has secured a record 10 medals at a single edition of the Games on three occasions, and the track and field team made crucial contributions all three times. In Antwerp in 1920 the athletics contingent bagged three medals, at Helsinki 1952 they earned two, and at Rio 2016 they pocketed four.
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