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Team South Africa has doubled its medal haul on day seven of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.

. Six-time world champion and Tokyo gold medalist, Pieter du Preez, and the wheelchair tennis pair of Lucas Sithole and Donald Ramphadi, won bronze medals to take the team’s medal tally to four.

Para-cyclist Du Preez finished third in the men’s H1 individual time trial in 36 minutes 7.05 seconds to win a bronze medal. Sithole and Ramphadi traded breaks with their Brazilian opponents early on in the opening set. Sithole and Ramphadi edged ahead 3-1 after winning the next two games. The pair eventually broke their opponents again in the eighth game to go one set-up. The Brazilians won the second set to level the match and force a deciding super tiebreaker.Meanwhile, swimmer, Christian Sadie has qualified seventh fastest for the final of the men’s S7 50-metres freestyle. He finished fourth in his heat in 29.27 secs.

 

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