This afternoon, Charl du Toit and Fanie van der Merwe ran to first and third place respectively in the T37 100-metre track final.
Shortly after their gold-bronze sprint final, Stellenbosch training partner Ilse Hayes scorched to silver in the women’s T13 100m final to make it five for SA in this Games campaign.
Yesterday, Hilton Langenhoven grabbed gold medal for the men's long jump with his leap of 7,07 metres.
On Friday, Kevin Paul bagged Team SA’s first gold medal for the 100 metres breaststroke title in the SB9 category.
The 25-year-old won gold at the Beijing games in 2008 and says after years of hard work he was able to replicate that achievement.
“I wanted to start things off with a bang for South Africa. We’ve got proud Paralympic history, if you want to call it that, I mean we saw Olympians doing a great job for Team South Africa.”
At the same time, South Africa has moved to 16th place on the Paralympic Games medals table.
The 25-year-old won gold at the Beijing games in 2008 and says after years of hard work he was able to replicate that achievement.
“I wanted to start things off with a bang for South Africa. We’ve got proud Paralympic history, if you want to call it that, I mean we saw Olympians doing a great job for Team South Africa.”
At the same time, South Africa has moved to 16th place on the Paralympic Games medals table.
