South Africa at the Olympics

**South Africa** was first at the **Olympic Games** in 1904, and sent athletes toevery Summer Olympic Games until 1960.  After the passage of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 in 1962 in response to South Africa's policy of apartheid, the nation was barred from the Games.

After the negotiations to end apartheid in 1990, the nation re-joined the Olympic movement.  The _South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee_ was formed in 1991, and South Africa returned to the Games at the 1992 Summer Olympics (and the 1992 Summer Paralympics).  South Africa was also in the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, and since 1994.

## Medalists

|style="width:6em"|Medal|style="width:12em"|Name|style="width:12em"|Games|Sport|Event|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||Athletics|Men's 100 metres||||
||||Athletics|Men's Marathon||||
||||Athletics|Men's Marathon||||
||||Cycling|Men's Individual Time Trial||||
||||Tennis|Men's Doubles Outdoor||||
||||Tennis|Men's Singles Outdoor||||
||||Athletics|Men's Marathon||||
||||Tennis|Men's Singles Outdoor||||
||||Athletics|Men's 400 Metres||||
||||Boxing|Men's Bantamweight||||
||||Tennis|Men's Singles||||
||||Athletics|Men's 400 Metres Relay||||
||||Cycling|Men's Individual Time Trial||||
||||Cycling|Men's Tandem||||
||||Shooting|Men's Team 600 Metres Military Rifle||||
||||Athletics|Men's 800m||||
||||Cycling|Team Pursuit||||
||||Tennis|Men's Singles||||
||||Boxing|Men's Bantamweight||||
||||Athletics|Men's 110m Hurdles||||
||||Athletics|Men's 10 Kilometer Walk||||
||||Athletics|Men's 110m Hurdles||||
||||Boxing|Men's Bantamweight||||
||||Swimming|Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay||||
||||Boxing|Men's lightweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's light-heavyweight||||
||||Athletics|Women's 80m hurdles||||
||||Boxing|Men's middleweight||||
||||Swimming|Women's 400m freestyle||||
||||Boxing|Men's featherweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's lightweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's light-heavyweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's featherweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's heavyweight||||
||||Athletics|Women's high jump||||
||||Swimming|Women's 100m backstroke||||
||||Athletics|Women's 100m||||
||||Boxing|Men's light-middleweight||||
||Thomas Shardelow ||  ||  Cycling (Track) || Men's 2000m tandem|||||||
||Robert Fowler Thomas Shardelow Alfred Swift ||  ||  Cycling (Track) || Men's team pursuit (4000m)|||||||
||||Boxing|Men's flyweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's featherweight||||
||||Boxing|Men's heavyweight||||
||||Cycling (Track)|Men's 1 km time trial||||
|||/Stockholm|Boxing|Men's heavyweight||||
|||/Stockholm|Boxing|Men's light-welterweight||||
|||/Stockholm|Cycling (Track)|Men's 1 km time trial||||
||Jeanette Myburgh Natalie Myburgh Susan Elizabeth Roberts|| /Stockholm ||  Swimming || Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay|||||||
||||Boxing|Men's heavyweight||||
||||Athletics|Men's 400m||||
||||Boxing|Men's featherweight||||
||||Athletics|Women's 10,000m||||
||Piet Norval ||  ||  Tennis || Men's Doubles|||||||
||||Athletics|Men's marathon||||
||||Swimming|Women's 100m breaststroke||||
||||Swimming|Women's 200m breaststroke||||
||||Athletics|Men's 800m||||
||||Swimming|Women's 100m backstroke||||
||||Athletics|Women's high jump||||
||||Swimming|Men's 200m breaststroke||||
||||Athletics|Men's 400m hurdles||||
||||Athletics|Men's discus throw||||
||||Swimming|Women's 100m breaststroke||||
||Ryk Neethling Roland Mark Schoeman Darian Townsend ||  || Swimming || Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay|||||||
||||Athletics|Men's 800m||||
||||Athletics|Women's high jump||||
||||Swimming|Men's 100m freestyle||||
||Ramon di Clemente ||  || Rowing || Men's coxless pair|||||||
||||Swimming|Men's 50m freestyle||||
||||Athletics|Men's long jump||||
||||Rowing|Men's Lightweight Four||||
||||Swimming|Men's 100m breaststroke||||
||||Swimming|Men's 200m butterfly||||
||||Athletics|Women's 800m||||
||||Swimming|Men's 100m butterfly||||
||||Canoeing|Women's K-1 500m||||
||||Athletics|Men's 400m||||
||||Athletics|Women's 800m||||
||||Swimming|Men's 200m freestyle||||
||||Rowing|Men's coxless pair||||
||||Swimming|Men's 100m butterfly||||
||||Swimming|Men's 100m breaststroke||||
||||Athletics|Men's long jump||||
||||Athletics|Women's javelin throw||||
||||Rugby Sevens|Men's tournament||||
||Henri Schoeman||Triathlon|Men's Triathlon||||

## Related pages

- List of IOC country codes

## Other websites

- South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
- South Africa profile at London2012.com

## Infobox (country at games)

- **noc**: RSA
- **nocname**: South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
- **games**: Olympics
- **gold**: 26
- **silver**: 31
- **bronze**: 29