Staff SA arrived again within the nation with solely six medals – two golds and 4 bronze – after every week and a half of motion.
Take heed to this text 5 min Take heed to this text 5 min The Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games got here to an in depth on Sunday with South Africa raking in six medals, inserting it forty sixth on the medals desk. China, with a staggering 220 medals, topped the standings.
South Africa’s medal tally is the bottom ever, creeping under the seven medals collected in Tokyo three years in the past.
Mpumelelo Mhlongo (T44 100m) and Simoné Kruger (T38 discus) introduced dwelling gold medals for South Africa.
Mhlongo had a terrific time in Paris. Aside from his blistering gold medal that he claimed in 11.12 seconds, he additionally claimed a bronze within the 200m T64 in 22.62 seconds, a T44 world report.
The multitalented athlete went on to say a world report within the T44 lengthy bounce with a leap of seven.12m within the closing, however his record-breaking efficiency was solely ok for fifth place.
Kruger’s T38 discus win additionally got here in a world report of 38.7m, an uber spectacular feat by the 19-year-old, who will solely get higher with age.
South Africa collected a complete of 4 bronze medals to accompany the 2 golds.
Pieter du Preez (H1 particular person time trial), Louzanne Coetzee (T11…