South Africa’s Olympic Medals

USA finished the Olympics in top spot, with some fierce competition from China, who, for a while, were in the lead.

South Africa finished in 23rd, which was not too bad, I felt there was potential for a few more medals. It does represent the country’s best-ever Olympic medal haul, so it’s good to see the improvement.

Rank by Gold	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USA	46	29	29	104
2	PR China	38	27	23	88
3	Great Britain	29	17	19	65
4	Russia	24	26	32	82
5	Rep of Korea	13	8	7	28
6	Germany	11	19	14	44
7	France	11	11	12	34
8	Italy	8	9	11	28
9	Hungary	8	4	5	17
10	Australia	7	16	12	35
11	Japan	7	14	17	38
12	Kazakhstan	7	1	5	13
13	Netherlands	6	6	8	20
14	Ukraine	6	5	9	20
15	New Zealand	6	2	5	13
16	Cuba	5	3	6	14
17	Iran	4	5	3	12
18	Jamaica	4	4	4	12
19	Czech Rep	4	3	3	10
20	DPR Korea	4	0	2	6
21	Spain	3	10	4	17
22	Brazil	3	5	9	17
23	South Africa	3	2	1	6
24	Ethiopia	3	1	3	7
25	Croatia	3	1	2	6

The South African medal winners were as follows:

Swimming:
Gold Medals (Cameron van der Burgh and Chad Le Clos)
Silver Medal (Chad Le Clos)

Rowing:
Gold Medal (Sizwe Ndlovu, John Smith, Matthew Brittain and James Thompson)

Canoe
Bronze Medal (Bridgette Hartley)

Athletics:
Silver Medal (Caster Semenya)

Well done to all of them!