The South African swimming team added 12 medals to the 11 they won on Monday with four gold, three silver, and five bronze.
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/ 5 September 2011
The South African swimming team added 11 medals on Monday to the four won by the triathletes at the All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique.
Former swimming world record holder Gerhard Zandberg says Swimming South Africa needs to get its act together or they can expect an exodus of talent.
There is plenty of work to be done if South African swimmers hope to step on the podium at next year’s London Olympics.
Preparations for next month’s world championships in Shanghai are off to a good start with a 14-medal haul for SA’s swimmers at Europe’s Mare Nostrum.
After an impressive showing at the Cana Aquatics Championships, Malesela Molepo could very well become South Africa’s first black Olympic swimmer.
SA’s Cameron van der Burgh broke his own world record to take gold in the men’s 50m breaststroke final at the world championships on Wednesday.
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/ 7 February 2009
Michael Phelps says it’s fair to be suspended for three months, the latest fallout from a photo showing him apparently inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
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World short-course champ Suzaan van Biljon held off challenges from breaststroke star Cameron van der Burgh and freestyle sensation Melissa Corfe.
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/ 22 September 2008
Swimming South Africa head coach Dirk Lange will not be entering into contract-renewal negotiations with the national federation.
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/ 11 September 2008
SA’s Natalie du Toit smashed her own world record on Thursday to grab her third gold of the Paralympics.
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/ 10 September 2008
Kevin Paul beat his personal best time on Wednesday on his way to winning a gold medal for the 100m breaststroke SB9 at the Paralympic Games.
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/ 7 September 2008
Durban-based Olympic swim star Kathryn Meaklim chalks up seven gold-medal performances at the South African Short-Course Championships.
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/ 7 September 2008
Britain took an early lead in the Paralympics medal table on Sunday as South African Olympian Natalie du Toit starred.
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/ 7 September 2008
Swimming SA management and its Olympic team members have agreed to work together in the interest of the sport.
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/ 6 September 2008
Roland Schoeman smashed two African records on the second day of the four-day Telkom South African Short-Course Championships on Friday.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps could earn -million through endorsement and sponsorship deals, his agent said in an interview published on Monday.
Tensions in South Africa’s swimming camp boiled over on Sunday as Roland Schoeman took a massive swipe at Gerhard Zandberg.
Michael Phelps completed his stunning display of swimming supremacy with an historic eighth gold medal at the Beijing Games on Sunday.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
Roland Schoeman became the fifth South African swimmer to make a final after he finished third in his semifinal of the 50m freestyle on Friday.
He’s only 20 years old, but Jean Basson has shown clear signs of greater things to come, finishing just outside of the medals at his first Games.
The unstoppable Michael Phelps won his sixth gold medal with his sixth world record of the Beijing Games on Friday.
South Africa’s Roland Schoeman proved in Beijing on Thursday night that there is no reason to write him off just yet.
Roland Schoeman, a silver medallist in the 100m freestyle at the Athens Games, is looking to give struggling South Africa an Olympic medal boost.
Frenchman Alain Bernard out-touched rival Eamon Sullivan to take Olympic gold in the 100m freestyle, with SA’s Lyndon Ferns finishing in sixth place.
Frenchman Alain Bernard put aside the demons of an agonising relay defeat to win the men’s 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Games on Thursday.
Michael Phelps came up for air on Thursday morning, swimming just the semifinals of the men’s 200m individual medley.
Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian in history on Wednesday, capturing the 10th and 11th gold medals of his Games career.
Ryk Neethling fails to progress in Beijing, but other SA swimmers fare better in their heats.