WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL 3 X3 TEAMS AND GROUPS ANNOUNCED FOR BIRMINGHAM 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES May 19, 2022 | 3x3, Africa, Americas, Asia Oceania, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Europe, News, Players, Zone News The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) are pleased to announce the 12 national wheelchair basketball teams that will compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

World Boccia Africa Regional Championships are here The countdown is over, and the World Boccia Africa Regional Championships are here! Welcome to all our visiting nations from across the continent, we can't wait to compete and celebrate this incredible game. Good luck to all participants!#AfricaBocciaChamps #YearOfTalent #GoSAGo The World Boccia Africa regional championships are underway and you don’t have to miss the live-action! All the details to keep you up to speed with the competition are below Here is the link for the Results: https://worldboccia.io/event/33 Here is the Live...

South Africa makes the most of home ground advantage at 2022 World Boccia Africa Regional Championships   The first-ever World Boccia Africa regional championships is underway in Ekurhuleni at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference centre. After two days of competition, the host nation is making the most of its home ground advantage.

Congratulations to all selected Congratulations to all the athletes selected to represent Team South Africa at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Your fine efforts have been rewarded with a chance to shine on the world stage and with the support of SASCOC, your families and friends, and all your countrymen we know you will fly the flag high and with pride. In 50 days you will march into the stadium with a smile on your face as you enjoy the opening of the games and we hope that when you attend the closing ceremonies that smile will be even bigger as you know that within yourself, you...

SA Hockey Women for Commonwealth Games 2022 In 50 Days’ time Team South Africa begin their Commonwealth Games challenge in Birmingham. The games initially awarded to Durban will be the 22nd hosting of the multi-sport event and the 7th staging of field hockey at the event. South Africa have competed in every event along with Australia, Canada, England, India, New Zealand and Scotland, with a best finish of 4th in 2010 and 2014. New Zealand are the defending champions having stunned Australia in the event in 2018 on the Gold Coast. The South African Women are in Pool B alongside five times...

The athletes named to represent Team SA at the Commonwealth Games.  Here are the athletes named to represent Team SA at the Commonwealth Games. Note: This is not the final list and some athletes might still qualify before the 29 June deadline. Some sports are also still finalising their squads as well. BEACH VOLLEYBALLMen: Leo Williams, Grant GoldschmidtCoach: Loet Groenewald BOXINGMen: Amzolele Dyeyi,  Simnikiwe BongcoWomen: Phiwokuhle SbusisiweCoaches: Nkosinathi Hlatshwayo, Moneen Brits CRICKETWomen: Anneke Bosch, Tazmin Brits, Trisha Chetty, Nadine de Klerk, Lara Goodall, Sinalo...

Msomi, Sadie named as Team SA flag bearer   National netball captain Bongi Msomi and para-swimmer Christian Sadie have been named as flag bearers for Team SA at Thursday’s opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.   The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) made the announcement ahead of the event that will officially launch the global showpiece.   The date, 28 July, also marks exactly a year to go until the start of the 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town and Msomi will lead a team determined to make a strong...

Msomi, Sadie named as Team SA flag bearer   National netball captain Bongi Msomi and para-swimmer Christian Sadie have been named as flag bearers for Team SA at Thursday’s opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.   The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) made the announcement ahead of the event that will officially launch the global showpiece.   The date, 28 July, also marks exactly a year to go until the start of the 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town and Msomi will lead a team determined to make a strong...

Enforced Changes To Team SA in Birmingham   There have been some enforced changes made to Team SA ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games which get underway in Birmingham on Thursday, 28 July.   The changes come as Team SA prepares to send the team into Games competition. With two days to go until the Opening Ceremony, the team has been assembling in Birmingham in the various athletes' villages. Team sports representing the country include men’s and women’s Sevens rugby, men’s and women’s hockey, women’s netball and women’s T20 cricket.   Two cricketers selected to...

Wheelchair stalwart gives it one more roll of the dice   By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham February 1990: There is change in the air. South Africans are experiencing a bright new dawn. A month earlier FW de Klerk announced the end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela was freed from prison after 27 years. The world was watching as South Africans faced change with a flood of emotions. That same month Cecil Dumond, a promising 18-year-old rugby player, joined the Orkney police as a student constable. Within weeks he realised it wasn’t his calling.  Then, in a stroke of good fortune, he...

Team SA in action on Friday (Day 1)   The 2022 Commonwealth Games action gets underway on Friday and Team SA is in action in nine different sports on the opening day of the competition. FIRST UPTeam SA’s Women’s Sevens rugby breaks the ice in Birmingham and they are in action at 9am in their Pool B match against Australia.   MEDALS WATCH Triathlon: Defending gold medallist from the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Henri Schoeman, is one of three Team SA athletes in the individual men’s race. He is alongside Jamie Riddle and Dylan Nortje as they look to continue the...

Team SA in action on Friday (Day 1)   The 2022 Commonwealth Games action gets underway on Friday and Team SA is in action in nine different sports on the opening day of the competition. FIRST UPTeam SA’s Women’s Sevens rugby breaks the ice in Birmingham and they are in action at 9am in their Pool B match against Australia.   MEDALS WATCH Triathlon: Defending gold medallist from the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Henri Schoeman, is one of three Team SA athletes in the individual men’s race. He is alongside Jamie Riddle and Dylan Nortje as they look to continue the...

Swimming’s Lara van Niekerk set the first Commonwealth Games   Swimming’s Lara van Niekerk set the first Commonwealth Games record when she won her women’s 50m breaststroke heat in 29.82 with Tatjana Schoenmaker 2nd in 30.76. Elsewhere, there were wins for Team SA in badminton, lawn bowls and rugby sevens. Stay updated with all the latest results and performances here. A word from record breaker, Lara van Niekerk after her impressive 29.82 new Games record. #TeamSA pic.twitter.com/1J7NVqZk1u — Team South Africa (@TeamSA2024) July 29, 2022 BADMINTONMixed Team event, Group D:...

Swimming’s Lara van Niekerk set the first Commonwealth Games   Swimming’s Lara van Niekerk set the first Commonwealth Games record when she won her women’s 50m breaststroke heat in 29.82 with Tatjana Schoenmaker 2nd in 30.76. Elsewhere, there were wins for Team SA in badminton, lawn bowls and rugby sevens. Stay updated with all the latest results and performances here. A word from record breaker, Lara van Niekerk after her impressive 29.82 new Games record. #TeamSA pic.twitter.com/1J7NVqZk1u — Team South Africa (@TeamSA2024) July 29, 2022 BADMINTONMixed Team event, Group D:...

RESULTS: How Team SA Fared on Day 2   Lara van Niekerk won GOLD in the women’s 50m breaststroke as TeamSA got on the medals table on day two of the competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The T20 women’s cricketers lost their opener to New Zealand, but the men’s Sevens rugby players booked a quarter-final against Canada. BADMINTONMixed Team event: Group D: SA 0 Malaysia 5Mixed doubles: Jarred Elliott, Deidree Jordaan lost 2-0 (21-7, 21-8) to Teng Fong Chia, Koong Le TanMen’s singles: Caden Kakora lost 2-0 (21-11, 21-8) to  Tze Yong...

RESULTS: How Team SA Fared on Day 2   Lara van Niekerk won GOLD in the women’s 50m breaststroke as TeamSA got on the medals table on day two of the competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The T20 women’s cricketers lost their opener to New Zealand, but the men’s Sevens rugby players booked a quarter-final against Canada. BADMINTONMixed Team event: Group D: SA 0 Malaysia 5Mixed doubles: Jarred Elliott, Deidree Jordaan lost 2-0 (21-7, 21-8) to Teng Fong Chia, Koong Le TanMen’s singles: Caden Kakora lost 2-0 (21-11, 21-8) to  Tze Yong...

RESULTS: How Team SA Fared on Day 3   Team SA was in action in 11 different sports on Sunday’s day three of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Chad Le Clos is looking to win his fourth 200m butterfly title, exactly 10 years to the night he beat American legend Michael Phelps in the London 2012 Olympics. Team SA are playing Fiji for the men’s Sevens rugby gold.   GYMNASTICSMen’s All-Round final: Muhammad Khaalid finished 14th with a total of 75.700 points. His apparatus scores were 12.200, 13.200, 11.850, 12.900, 13.250, 12.300 PARA TRIATHLONMen’s...

RESULTS: How Team SA Fared on Day 3   Team SA was in action in 11 different sports on Sunday’s day three of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Chad Le Clos is looking to win his fourth 200m butterfly title, exactly 10 years to the night he beat American legend Michael Phelps in the London 2012 Olympics. Team SA are playing Fiji for the men’s Sevens rugby gold.   GYMNASTICSMen’s All-Round final: Muhammad Khaalid finished 14th with a total of 75.700 points. His apparatus scores were 12.200, 13.200, 11.850, 12.900, 13.250, 12.300 PARA TRIATHLONMen’s...

SA's Ramphadi wins Belgian Open title South Africa's Donald Ramphadi wins at the Belgian Open South Africa's Donald Ramphadi has won the wheelchair quad singles title at the Belgian Open (ITF 1 series) tennis tournament in Jambes, Belgium. Ramphadi, 29, defeated American top seed David Wagner 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 in the final on Sunday. The world number 6 from Tzaneen in Limpopo also clinched the runners-up position in the doubles competition with his Japanese partner Kei Usami. They went down to Ymanitu Silva (Brazil) and Marcus Lauden (Germany) 3-6,...

KG, Donald bow out at Melbourne Open 20Jan   South African wheelchair tennis stars Kgothatso 'KG' Montjane and Donald Ramphadi both exited the Melbourne Open after losing in straight sets in the singles quarterfinal and doubles semifinal rounds, in their respective divisions. Montjane, South Africa's world No.6 women's player, was eliminated in the last eight stages 6-2, 6-3 by Dutch top seed Diede de Groot. Montjane and her Japanese partner Manami Tanaka were eliminated in the semifinals of the doubles competition by top seeds De Groot and Aniek van...