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WHO'S OUR NEXT MEDALLIST? We’re beating Australia on the medal table! Will Team South Africa add to their four medals this week?
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by ROB FLUDE
hugely successful first week of the London Olympics brought Team South Africa four medals - three gold and one silver - starting with Cameron van der Burgh's 100m breaststroke victory, followed by Chad le Clos beating Michael Phelps to win gold in the 200m butterfly on Tuesday, as well as getting his silver medal in Friday's 100m butterfly. The quartet of Matthew Brittain, Lawrence Ndlovu, John Smith and James Thompson won SA's first ever rowing medal, while Oscar Pistorius made history in his Olympic debut. Can Team South Africa haul in more silverware? Here are the athletes to watch... Athletics Sunette Viljoen is a genuine medal contender in the javelin. She’s in the qualifying rounds on Tuesday,
and should she progress, will be in the final on Thursday at 9pm. The 28-year-old has a personal best of 69.35m (sixth best throw of all time) and obtained bronze at last year's world championships in Daegu. After claiming gold at the last two Commonwealth Games she’s hoping for higher honours in this, her third Olympics Interestingly, she also has played 18 matches for the SA ladies' cricket team. On Wednesday, Willem Coertzen lines up in the men's decathlon, starting with the 100m heats at 10.10am, followed by the long jump at 11.10am, shot put at 12.50pm, high jump at 6pm, and 400m at 9.30pm. The event continues on Thursday with the 110m hurdles at 9am, discus at 9.55am or 11.10am (depending on group allocation), pole vault at 12.55pm, javelin at 6.30pm or 7.40pm (depending on group allocation) and 1,500m at 9.20pm.
Our main medal contender on the track is Caster Semenya. The 21-year old looks to have put all the controversy behind her and has been training flat out for the 800m. The heats are on Wednesday at 11.35am, semifinals on Thursday night, and the final on Saturday at 8pm. Her personal best of 1:55:95 (when she won gold in the world championships in 2009) is still some two seconds slower than the world record, which has stood for almost 20 years. The men's 4 x 400m relay team (chosen from Oscar Pistorius, Willie de Beer, Ofentse Magawane, Shaun de Jager, LJ van Zyl and Cornel Fredericks), will take part in the heats on Thursday morning, and hopefully Friday's final at 9.20pm.
bid on Wednesday afternoon. The semifinals and final are on Friday, starting at 3.08pm.
Cycling (BMX) Sifiso Nhlapo is another medal hopeful. The 25-year old from Soweto commences his Olympic
Canoe (sprint) Bridgitte Hartley has impressed with her feats in the K1 500m in the last few years, and will be
Cycling (mountain bike) Burry Stander, a 24-year-old from Port Shepstone, will hope that at 1.30pm on Sunday at Hadleigh Park in Essex, he can turn his 2011 and 2012 Absa Cape Epic wins into Olympic Gold. Stander finished 15th in Beijing. Hockey (men) After two agonisingly close games against Great Britain (2-2) and Pakistan (5-4), the men's hockey team will look to notch their first victory when they take on Argentina at 1.45pm on Tuesday. The Argentines have also not managed a win yet.
confident she can obtain a medal this time, having fallen short in the K2 500m semifinal in Beijing. She takes part in the K1 sprint heats on Tuesday morning. The final is on Thursday at 10.15am. Hartley holds the world record for the fastest time in this discipline. Triathlon Richard Murray competes in Tuesday's triathlon. He is another medal hopeful, having finished second in the Sydney leg of the World Triathlon in April, and first in Hamburg more recently. Men's Marathon In probably one of the most famous Olympic races, SA has three competitors who will look to emulate Josiah Thugwane's win in the 1996 Atlanta Games. Lusapho April, Stephen Mokoka and Coolboy Ngamole will line up on Sunday at 11am and and will come through The Mall just after 1pm.