TUESDAY, 5.30PM:
The seven-member South African Olympic Weightlifting team returned from the 12th African Weightlifting championships held in Algeria with a bag of 15 medals, including six silver and nine bronze.
Henk Booysen won three of the six silver medals almost equalling the South African clean-and-jerk record in the 105kg weight class. Booysen clean-and-jerked 185kg, narrowly missing the 187,5kg record.
Loriaan Daniels (19) from Western Province took the other three silver medals, setting up three new junior national records in the process.She snatched 40kg and clean-and-jerked 52,5kg in the 47kg body-weight category.
Bronwyn Gertse, Loriaan Daniels, and Jaques Francis all won bronze medals.
The next African Weightlifting Championships will be held at the 1999 Africa Games in Johannesburg. South Africa will be represented by a full seven member women’s, and eight member men’s team.
The 1999 African continental games will also serve as an opportunity for African national teams to qualify for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.