South Africa at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Flag used to represent South Africa at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games
IOC code	RSA
NOC	South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
Website	www.sascoc.co.za
in Barcelona
Competitors	93 (68 men and 25 women) in 19 sports
Flag bearer	Jan Tau
Medals Ranked 41st	Gold 0 Silver 2 Bronze 0 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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South Africa competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time since 1960 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. South Africa was permitted to re-join the Olympic Movement after its citizens voted to abolish apartheid. 93 competitors, 68 men and 25 women, took part in 87 events in 19 sports.^[1]

Flag, anthem and team logo

As a result of a dispute over what flag and anthem to use, the team participated in these games under a specially designed sporting flag. The flag consisted of a white field charged with a grey diamond, which represented the country's mineral wealth, three cascading bands of blue, orange, and green, which represented the sea, the land, and agriculture respectively, and the Olympic rings. ^[2] Team uniforms included the emblem of Olympic Committee of South Africa, which depicted Olympic rings surrounded by olive branches, with the name of the country above. The Olympic Committee of South Africa stated that Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was picked as the team's anthem instead of the national anthem at the time, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", at these games to "represent national unity".^[3] During the opening ceremony, the flag was carried by marathon runner Jan Tau.^{[citation needed]}

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Wayne Ferreira Piet Norval	Tennis	Men's doubles	7 August
Silver	Elana Meyer	Athletics	Women's 10,000 metres	7 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[4]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	8	8	16
Badminton	2	0	2
Boxing	2	–	2
Canoeing	9	2	11
Cycling	4	1	5
Diving	1	0	1
Equestrian	2	1	3
Fencing	3	2	5
Modern pentathlon	1	0	1
Rowing	9	0	9
Sailing	11	0	11
Shooting	2	0	2
Swimming	6	4	10
Synchronized swimming	–	2	2
Table tennis	1	1	2
Tennis	3	3	6
Weightlifting	1	–	1
Wrestling	3	–	3
Total	68	25	93

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics

In South Africa's debut appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by two archers. Neither advanced past the ranking round.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Rank
Malcolm Todd	Individual	1188	68	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Rank
Johanna Schenk	Individual	1184	56	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Abel Mokibe	Marathon	—						2:17.24	25
Bobang Phiri	400 m	45.57	2 Q	45.27	3 Q	45.59	7	Did not advance
Zithulele Sinqe	Marathon	—						DNF
Jan Tau	Marathon	—						DNF
Abel Tshaka Nzimande	200 m	21.43	4 Q	DNS		Did not advance
Andries Vorster	400 m hurdles	49.75	4	Did not advance
Xolile Yawa	10000 m	28:28.78	7 Q	—				28:37.18	13

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Myrtle Bothma	400 m hurdles	55.60	3 Q	—		54.53	4 Q	DNF
Colleen De Reuck	Marathon	—						2:39.03	9
Elana Meyer	10000 m	32:05.45	2 Q	—				31:11.75
Zola Pieterse	3000 m	9:07.10	9	Did not advance
Elinda Vorster	100 m	11.45	3 Q	11.44	4 Q	11.44	6	Did not advance
Elinda Vorster	200 m	23.14	2 Q	22.99	3 Q	23.08	7	Did not advance
Marcel Winkler	100 m	12.01	40	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Karen Botha	Long jump	6.43	17	Did not advance
Charmaine Weavers	High jump	1.75	39	Did not advance

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anton Kriel	Men's singles	Arni Hallgrimsson (ISL) L 8–15, 7–15	Did not advance
Nico Meerholz	Men's singles	Chan Kin Ngai (HKG) L 7–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Anton Kriel Nico Meerholz	Men's doubles	—	Shuji Matsuno Shinji Matsuura (JPN) L 4–15, 2–15	Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Abram Thwala	Light Flyweight	Rafael Lozano (ESP) L 0–9	Did not advance
Giovanni Pretorius	Welterweight	Sören Antman (SWE) L RSC-1	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Preliminary				Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank
Corran Addison	Men's K-1	157.63	38	150.71	34	150.71	38
Alexander Rennie		126.79	31	198.12	39	126.79	36
Gary Wade		270.61	40	162.93	36	162.93	40

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Willem van Riet	K-1 500 m	1:47.98	5 Q	1:46.33	4	Did not advance
Mark Perrow	K-1 1000 m	3:45.29	5 Q	3:36.13	2 Q	3:40.20	7	Did not advance
Hermann Kotze Bennie Reynders	K-2 500 m	1:37.44	4 Q	1:36.50	5	Did not advance
Willem van Riet Barry Hayward	K-2 1000 m	3:29.38	6 Q	3:24.15	4	Did not advance
Mark Perrow Hermann Kotze Bennie Reynders Oscar Chalupsky	K-4 1000 m	3:06.36	5 Q	—		3:10.82	8	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dene Simpson	K-1 500 m	2:06.62	7 Q	—		2:02.42	8	Did not advance
Lesley Carstens Dene Simpson	K-2 500 m	1:52.02	5 Q	—		1:54.80	9	Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Five cyclists, four men and one woman, represented South Africa in 1992.

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Scott Richardson	Men's road race	4:58:25	81
Wayne Burgess			DNF
Malcolm Lange			DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jacqueline Martin	Women's road race	2:15:42	46

Track

Time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sean Bloch	Team time trial	1:10.145	26

Men's Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualifying round		Round 2	Round 2 repechage	Round 2 repechage final	Round 3	Round 3 repechage	Quarter-finals	Classification 5–8	Semi-finals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Time	Rank
Sean Bloch	Men's sprint	12.186	22	Magné (FRA) Jeřábek (TCH) L	Ķiksis (LAT) L	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Malcolm Lange	Men's individual pursuit	ovtk	DNF	Did not advance

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Craig Vaughan	3 m springboard	297.51	30	Did not advance

Equestrianism

Main article: Equestrian at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping			Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
David Peter Rissik	Schiroubles	Individual	93.00	81	36.80	129.80	34	20.25	150.05	30	150.05	30

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final				Total
			Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Total		Round A		Round B		Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Total	Rank
Peter Hans Walther Gotz	Didi	Individual	64.50	23	56.00	28	84.50	3	205.00	6 Q	20,25	35	Did not advance
Gonda Joyce Betrix	Tommy	Individual	10.00	78	17.00	71	0	0	27,0	79	Did not advance

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Five fencers, three men and two women, represented South Africa in 1992.

Men

Individual

Athlete	Event	Elimination round	Round I	Repechage Round I	Round II	Repechage Round II	Round III	Repechage Round III	Round IV	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hein van Garderen	Individual foil	51	Did not advance										51
	Individual épée	70	Did not advance										70
	Individual sabre	42	Did not advance										42
Trevor Strydom	Individual épée	68	Did not advance										68
Dario Torrente	Individual foil	54	Did not advance										54
	Individual épée	67	Did not advance										67
	Individual sabre	36	Did not advance										36

Women

Individual

Athlete	Event	Elimination round	Round I	Repechage Round I	Round II	Repechage Round II	Round III	Repechage Round III	Round IV	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Heidi Botha	Individual foil	44	Did not advance										44
Rencia Nasson	Individual foil	46	Did not advance										46

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented South Africa in 1992.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)	Fencing (épée one touch)	Swimming (200 m freestyle)	Riding (show jumping)	Running (3000 m)	Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Points	Points	Points	Points	Total points	Final rank
Trevor Strydom	Men's	507	1192	1150	961	1010	4820	50

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Martin Walsh Rogan Clarke Grant Hillary Andrew Gordon-Brown Erich Mauff Timothy Lahner Robin McCall Ivan Pentz Andrew Lonmon-Davis	Eight	5:37.83	3 Q	—		5:45.13	5	5:42.58	8

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Net points	Final rank
William Tyson	Lechner A-390	37	31	28	31	37	31	29	37	32	37	347.0	35
Ian Richard Ainslie	Finn	10	12	11	16	11	17	20	—			113.0	18
Martin E. Lambrecht Alec G. H. Lanham Love	470	25	32	30	34	35	27	31	—			215.0	35

Open

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Net points	Final rank
David Beresford Hudson David Michael Kitchen	Flying Dutchman	5	16	22	20	16	22	14	—			128.0	19
Eric Johnstone Cook Geoffrey L. Stevens	Tornado	21	20	20	21	21	20	20	—			158.0	21
Bruce Charles Savage Richard James Mayhew Giles Canham Stanley	Soling	13	8	15	12	7	20	—				85.0	14

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Manfred Fiess	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	588	43	Did not advance

Open

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Cornelius Jansen Bornman	Trap	127	52	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final B		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kenneth Cawood	100 m breaststroke	1:04.02	27	Did not advance
Kenneth Cawood	100 m breaststroke	2:21.88	33	Did not advance
Darryl Cronje	50 m freestyle	23.39	22	Did not advance
Craig Jackson	100 m butterfly	55.45	26	Did not advance
Craig Jackson	200 m butterfly	2:02.17	28	Did not advance
Seddon Keyter	100 m freestyle	51.42	29	Did not advance
Seddon Keyter	100 m backstroke	57.94	32	Did not advance
Clifford Lyne	200 m breaststroke	2:25.66	41	Did not advance
	200 m medley	2:06.62	27	Did not advance
	400 m medley	4:32.64	24	Did not advance
Peter Williams	50 m freestyle	22.65	5	Did not advance		22.50	4
Peter Williams Darryl Cronje Seddon Keyter Craig Jackson	4 × 100 m freestyle	3:23.53	11	—		Did not advance
Seddon Keyter Kenneth Cawood Peter Williams Darryl Cronje	4 × 100 m medley	3:46.86	14	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final B		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jill Brukman	100 m backstroke	1:04.57	22	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:18.56	32	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:23.07	28	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	5:03.34	27	Did not advance
Penny Heyns	100 m breaststroke	1:14.99	33	Did not advance
Penny Heyns	200 m breaststroke	2:45.04	34	Did not advance
Marianne Kriel	50 m freestyle	26.05	9	26.47	13	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	57.50	20	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:03.20	12	1:03.12	10	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	1:02.49	21	Did not advance
Jeanine Steenkamp	400 m freestyle	4:23.33	21	Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:59.62	19	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:58.48	25	Did not advance
Jill Brukman Jeanine Steenkamp Penny Heyns Marianne Kriel	4 × 100 m medley	4:24.28	16	—		Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Two synchronized swimmers represented South Africa in 1992.

Athlete	Event	Figures		Technical routine		Free routine		Qualification		Technical routine		Free routine		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Amanda Taylor	Women's solo	75.821	49	Did not advance
Loren Wulfsohn	Women's solo	72.633	50	Did not advance
Amanda Taylor Loren Wulfsohn	Women's duet	74.227	17	74.227	17	78.16	17	152.387	17	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Louis Botha	Men's singles	Andrzej Grubba (POL) L 0–2	Cláudio Kano (BRA) L 0–2	Roland Vimi (TCH) L 0–2	4	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Cheryl Roberts	Women's singles	Alessia Arisi (ITA) L 0–2	Elke Schall-Wosik (GER) L 0–2	Qiao Hong (CHN) L 0–2	4	Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Wayne Ferreira	Singles	Christo van Rensburg (RSA) W 7–5, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4	Marc Rosset (SUI) L 4–6, 0–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Christo van Rensburg	Singles	Wayne Ferreira (RSA) L 5–7, 2–6, 6–2, 4–6	Did not advance
Wayne Ferreira Piet Norval	Doubles	Did not advance	Bent-Ove Pedersen Christian Ruud (NOR) W 6–2, 6–4, 5–7, 6–3	Brian Gyetko Sebastien LeBlanc (CAN) W 6–3, 7–6, 6–4	George Cosac Dinu Pescariu (ROU) W 6–0, 6–3, 6–2	Goran Ivanišević Goran Prpić (CRO) W 7–6, 3–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–2	Boris Becker Michael Stich (GER) L 6–7, 6–4, 6–7, 3–6

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Amanda Coetzer	Singles	Zina Garrison (USA) W 7–5, 6–1	Agnese Blumberga (LAT) W 6–2, 6–4	Conchita Martínez (ESP) L 4–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Mariaan de Swardt	Singles	Patricia Tarabini (ARG) L 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Elna Reinach	Singles	Jennifer Capriati (USA) L 1–6, 0–6	Did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Pieter Smith	82.5 kg	120,0	29	150	27	270,0	27

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
Athlete	Event	Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Tjaart du Plessis	−62 kg	Karsten Polky (GER) L 3–5	İsmail Faikoğlu (TUR) L 0–9	—				11	Did not advance
Barend Labuschagne	−74 kg	Amir Reza Khadem (IRN) L 0–10	Yoshihiko Hara (JPN) L 1–7	—				8	Did not advance
Johannes Rossouw	−100 kg	Miroslav Makaveev (BUL) L 5–6	Leri Khabelov (EUN) L 1–8	—				7	Did not advance

References

^ "South Africa at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
^ "South African Olympic Flags".
^ "OLYMPICS; An Era Ends, Another Begins: South Africa to Go to Olympics (Published 1991)". The New York Times. 7 November 1991. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
^ South Africa at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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