OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Friday 11.00am.
SOUTH African athletes have added three more gold medals to their haul at the African Athletics Championships in Dakar, Senegal, bringing their bag of gold medals to seven.
Pole-valter Okkert Brits won the evnt with a vault of 5,40m, while Burger Lamprechts took the shot-put gold with a throw of 19,76m. Shaun Bownes won the 110m hurdles, but his time is yet to be announced.
The other four South Africans who have won gold medals are Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete (high jump), Frantz Kruger and Elizma Naude (both discus) and Chris Harmse in the hammer-throw.
Athletics South Africa