South African swimmer Rebecca Meder was the lone shining light for Team South Africa in the morning session of Day 7 of theMeder finished fourth in her heat in 2min 11.96 seconds. This was the 16th fastest in the competition. Her compatriots in the men’s 100m butterfly, Chad le Clos and Matthew Sates failed to advance to the semi-finals.Le Clos, a four-time Olympics medallist was fifth at the halfway mark, but he clawed his way back to eventually finish second in a time of 52.
Smith and Baxter finished strongly and managed to sneak into third place with a time of six minutes, 23-point-one-one seconds behind New Zealand and Lithuania.Track and field athletics started at the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday, but the news was not encouraging from a South African point of view. Neither Tshepo Tshite nor Ryan Mphahlele managed to automatically qualify for Sunday’s 1500m semi-finals.
However, Tshite’s time of 3min 36.87 seconds was good enough for a place in tomorrow’s rerun where runners will have a second crack at qualifying for the semis. And in the first round of the men’s 1500 m of track and field, neither Tshepo Tshite nor Ryan Mphahlele managed to automatically qualify for Sunday’s semi-finals.
However, Tshite’s time of 3min 36.87 seconds was good enough for a place in Saturday’s repechage where runners will have a second crack at qualifying for the semis. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.