South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics

South Africa at the
2020 Summer Olympics
South Africa at the; 2020 Summer Olympics
	Flag of South Africa
IOC code	RSA
NOC	South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
Website	www.sascoc.co.za
in Tokyo, Japan
Competitors	86 in 11 sports
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1904; 1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964–1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

South Africa is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-apartheid era, and twentieth overall in Summer Olympic history.

Artistic swimming

South Africa fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet event, by securing a berth as the highest-ranked pair, not yet qualified, from Africa at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, marking the country's return to the sport for the first time since Barcelona 1992.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
	Duet

Athletics

South African athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[2]^[3]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
	Men's 4 × 100 m relay

Cycling

Road

South Africa entered a squad of five riders (three men and two women) to compete in their respective Olympic road races, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) and top 22 (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Men's road race
	Men's time trial
	Men's road race
	Men's road race
	Women's road race
	Women's time trial
	Women's road race

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, South African riders accumulated spots for both men and women in the sprint and keirin, as well as the men's omnium and madison, based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	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)	Rank
	Men's sprint
	Women's sprint

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	3rd Round	Final
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
	Men's keirin
	Women's keirin

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race			Elimination race		Points race		Total points	Rank
Athlete	Event	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Points	Rank	Total points	Rank
	Men's omnium

Mountain biking

South Africa entered one rider each to compete in both men's and women's cross-country race, respectively, by virtue of their best individual ranking at the 2019 African Championships.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Men's cross-country
	Women's cross-country

Diving

South Africa sent one diver into the Olympic competition by winning the gold medal in the women's springboard at the 2019 African Qualifying Meet in Durban.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Micaela Bouter	Women's 3 m springboard

Equestrian

South Africa entered two riders into the Olympic equestrian competition by the following results: a top two finish each, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group F (Africa and Middle East) in both dressage and eventing, respectively.^[5]

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Grand Prix		Grand Prix Freestyle		Overall
Athlete	Horse	Event	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic	Score	Rank
		Individual

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualified for the final; q = Qualified for the final as a lucky loser

Eventing

Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
	Dressage		Cross-country			Qualifier			Final			Total
	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Individual

Field hockey

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
South Africa men's	Men's tournament
South Africa women's	Women's tournament

Men's tournament

South Africa men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2019 Men's African Olympic Qualifier in Stellenbosch.^[6]

Team roster

Men's team event – 1 team of 16 players

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	5	4	1	0	26	9	+17	13	Quarter-finals
2	Germany	5	3	0	2	19	10	+9	9
3	Great Britain	5	2	2	1	11	11	0	8
4	Netherlands	5	2	1	2	13	13	0	7
5	South Africa	5	1	1	3	16	24	−8	4
6	Canada	5	0	1	4	9	27	−18	1

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

24 July 2021
18:30
v

Great Britain	3–1	South Africa
Ward 2' Ansell 32' Waller 56'	Report	Guise-Brown 4'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Germán Montes de Oca (ARG)
Ben Goentgen (GER)

25 July 2021
21:15
v

South Africa	3–5	Netherlands
M. Cassiem 2' D. Cassiem 10' Kok 18'	Report	Pruyser 24', 54' Van Dam 29' Brinkman 36' Van der Weerden 48'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)
Javed Shaikh (IND)

27 July 2021
18:30
v

Belgium	9–4	South Africa
Dohmen 4', 15' Hendrickx 9', 18', 40' Briels 12' Van Doren 15' Gougnard 25' Charlier 41'	Report	D. Cassiem 5', 31' M. Cassiem 23' Ntuli 29'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Raghu Prasad (IND)
Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

29 July 2021
11:45
v

South Africa	4–3	Germany
Guise-Brown 9' Horne 13' Spooner 45' M. Cassiem 48'	Report	Herzbruch 8' Windfeder 22' Staib 24'

North Pitch
Umpires:
David Tomlinson (NZL)
Javed Shaikh (IND)

30 July 2021
12:15
v

Canada	4–4	South Africa
Pearson 11' K. Pereira 17' Boothroyd 42' Ho-Garcia 59'	Report	Ntuli 2' Spooner 9' Guise-Brown 34' Mvimbi 58'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Germán Montes de Oca (ARG)
Raghu Prasad (IND)

Women's tournament

South Africa women's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2019 Women's African Olympic Qualifier in Stellenbosch.^[6]

Team roster

Women's team event – 1 team of 16 players

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	5	5	0	18	2	+16	15	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	5	4	1	13	7	+6	12
3	Great Britain	5	3	2	11	5	+6	9
4	India	5	2	3	7	14	−7	6
5	Ireland	5	1	4	4	11	−7	3
6	South Africa	5	0	5	5	19	−14	0

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

24 July 2021
21:15
v

Ireland	2–0	South Africa
Upton 9' Torrans 45'	Report

South Pitch
Umpires:
Kelly Hudson (NZL)
Emi Yamada (JPN)

26 July 2021
18:30
v

South Africa	1–4	Great Britain
Walraven 6'	Report	Rayer 29', 50' Toman 39' Unsworth 40'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
Maggie Giddens (USA)

28 July 2021
09:30
v

Netherlands	5–0	South Africa
Matla 16', 35' Keetels 42' Albers 52' Verschoor 55'	Report

North Pitch
Umpires:
Amber Church (NZL)
Ayanna McClean (TTO)

30 July 2021
09:30
v

South Africa	1–4	Germany
Marks 53'	Report	Altenburg 2', 24' Zimmermann 10' Schröder 49'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Emi Yamada (JPN)
Maggie Giddens (USA)

31 July 2021
12:15
v

India	4–3	South Africa
Vandana 4', 17', 49' Neha 32'	Report	Glasby 15' Hunter 30' Marais 39'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Amber Church (NZL)
Liu Xiaoying (CHN)

Football

Summary

Key:

A.E.T – After extra time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
South Africa men's	Men's tournament

Men's tournament

South Africa men's football team qualified for the Games by winning the bronze medal and securing the last of three available berths of the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations.^[7]

Team roster

Men's team event – 1 team of 18 players

Gymnastics

Artistic

South Africa entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Caitlin Rooskrantz received a spare berth from the women's apparatus events, as one of the twelve highest-ranked gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified directly through the all-around, at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Caitlin Rooskrantz	All-around

Rowing

South Africa qualified one boat in the men's pair by finishing third in the B-final and securing ninth out of eleven berths available at the 2019 FISA World Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Men's pair

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Rugby sevens

Men's tournament

The South Africa national rugby sevens team qualified by advancing to the quarterfinals in the 2019 London Sevens, securing a top four spot in the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series.^[9]

Team roster

Men's team event – 1 team of 12 players

Surfing

South Africa sent two surfers (one per gender) to compete in their respective shortboard races at the Games. Bianca Buitendag secured a qualification slot for her nation in the women's shortboard as the highest-ranked and last remaining surfer from Africa at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan.^[10] On the men's side, Jordy Smith finished within the top ten of those eligible for qualification in the World Surf League rankings to join Buitendag on the South African roster for Tokyo 2020.^[11]

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jordy Smith	Men's shortboard
Bianca Buitendag	Women's shortboard

References

^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^ "IAAF Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^ "Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". UCI. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ "Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI". FEI. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Tokyo beckons as South Africa's continental success continues". International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
^ "Egypt conquer Africa to head up Olympic trio". FIFA. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^ "B-finals take on new meaning when Tokyo 2020 spots are available". International Rowing Federation. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
^ "Blitzboks struggle in London, but qualify for Tokyo 2020". Springbok Sevens. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^ "World's Top Women Approach Gold Medals, Capture Olympic Qualification in Miyazaki". International Surfing Association. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
^ "Congrats Jordy Smith!". World Surf League. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

[1] "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

[2] "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.

[3] "IAAF Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.

[4] "Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". UCI. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[5] "Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI". FEI. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

[hockeyqualifier-6] "Tokyo beckons as South Africa's continental success continues". International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 18 August 2019.

[7] "Egypt conquer Africa to head up Olympic trio". FIFA. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.

[8] "B-finals take on new meaning when Tokyo 2020 spots are available". International Rowing Federation. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

[9] "Blitzboks struggle in London, but qualify for Tokyo 2020". Springbok Sevens. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

[10] "World's Top Women Approach Gold Medals, Capture Olympic Qualification in Miyazaki". International Surfing Association. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

[11] "Congrats Jordy Smith!". World Surf League. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

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