South Africa received its third silver – and sixth total – medal on the Paris Olympics 2024 on Saturday.

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Jo-Ane van Dyk completed second within the girls’s javelin with a throw of 63.93.

Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi took gold with a season’s finest throw of 65.80, whereas the Czech Republic’s Nikola Ogrodnikova completed third with 63.68.

Van Dyk received R200 000 for her silver medal, as promised by the South African Sports activities Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) previous to the Video games.

South Africa’s different 5 medals are one gold medal (Tatjana Smith – girls’s 100m breaststroke), two silvers (Smith – girls’s 200m breaststroke, males’s 4x100m relay) and two bronzes (males’s rugby sevens, Alan Hatherly – males’s mountain bike cross nation).

In the meantime, new Minister of Sport, Arts and Tradition, Gayton McKenzie, mentioned {that a} ‘large shock’ awaits South Africa’s medal winners on the Paris Olympics 2024.

As reported by The South African web site, in a dialogue with SABC Sport, McKenzie mentioned he anticipated Staff South Africa to return residence with ‘eight medals’ from this yr’s Video games.

Though he was adamant that it stay a ‘shock’ till formally communicated, it seems clear that Staff SA gold, silver and bronze medal winners will obtain one thing along with the monetary incentives introduced beforehand by Sascoc.

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