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Highlights from Team SA at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Sunday

Sunday Highlights From Team SA at the Games

Sunday Highlights From Team SA at the Games
 

Here we look at the highlights from those who were in action Team SA at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Sunday

 

1 Chad Le Clos surged to the SILVER medal, being out-touched to a fourth successive gold by New Zealand’s Lewis Cuthburt. Le Clos went out in lane five to set a fast pace, leading by 0.40sec at 50m, by 0.33 at 100m and 0.17 at 150m. But just as he seemed to have shaken off James Guy, Cuthhurt, in lane four, came through strongly, and got to the wall first with his final stroke.

2 Tatjana Schoenmaker qualified fastest for the women’s 200m breaststroke final with a sizzling final leg 36.41sec as she powered to victory in 2:21.76. American Lily King won world championship gold this year in 2:22.41

3 Angelo Davids scored another hat-trick to take his total to 10 tries for the tournament as Team SA reached the men’s Sevens rugby final. The 1.82m, 22-year-old was again clinical as he helped his team come from 12-7 down to beat Australia 24-12 in the semi-final.

4 Elmarie van der Berg grabbed 47 goals from 49 attempts as South Africa bounced back from their opening netball defeat to Jamaica on Saturday night by with an impressive display less than 24 hours later against Barbados. Van der Berg, the 20-year-old goal-shooter, played 45 minutes of the match and was central figure in the 91-36 victory

5 Chad Le Clos finished second in his 200m butterfly heat in 1:56.85 as he attempted to become the first swimmer in history to win four successive golds in the event in the Comnonwealth Games. The race comes exactly 10 years to the night that he beat Michael Phelps in the 200m butterfly at the 2012 London Olympics

Pieter Coetze won the second 50m backstroke semi-final in 24.81 with a powerful last 25 metres of the race. The South African teenager qualified fastest for the final

7 Pieter Coetze, the teenager who surged to 100m backstroke gold on Saturday night, had targeted the 50m backstroke as his main event at these Games and he warmed up by winning his heat in 24.95 and qualifying fastest for the semi-finals

8 Happy 20th birthday Rebecca Meder. The swimmer produced two personal bests in the 100m backstroke, taking her time down to 1:01.78, on Saturday and was back in the water on Sunday where she clocked a 27.16 in teh 50m butterfly to qualify for the semi-finals

Compiled by Gary Lemke in Birmingham

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