South Africa won two golds, one silver and one bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Sunday, taking their medals total to six. Tatjana Schoenmaker retained her 200m breaststroke crown, and South Africa won the men’s Rugby Sevens for gold. Chad le Clos won a silver medal in the men’s 200m butterfly and Kaylene Corbett claimed bronze in 200m breaststroke.
Here is a wrap up of how all Team SA’s competitors performed on Sunday.
BADMINTON
Mixed Team, quarter-final: South Africa 0 India 3
Mixed doubles: Jarred Elliott, Deidre Jordaan lost 2-0 (21-9, 21-11) to Reddy, Ponnappa
Men’s singles: Caden Kakora lost 2-0 (21-5, 21-6) to Sen
Women’s singles: Johanna Scholtz lost 2-0 (21-11, 21-16) to Kashyap
BOXING
Men’s middleweight (75kg): Simnikiwe Bongco beat Foday Badjie (Gambia) 5-0
GYMNASTICS
Men’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
Women’s All-Round final: Naveen Daries finished sixth with a combined score of 49.850. The gold medal went to Australia’s Georgia Godwin with 53.550 points. Davies apparatus scores were 12.950, 12.800, 11.400, 12.700. Caitlin Rooskrantz placed ninth with a total of 48.350. Roozktantz’s apparatus scores were 12.850, 12.150, 10.850, 12.500
HOCKEY
Women’s Pool B: South Africa 0 Australia 5
South Africa suffered a second successive pool defeat when going down to the powerful Australians. The Aussies scored once in the first quarter, twice in the third quarter and twice in the last quarter
LAWN BOWLS
Para Men’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Willem Viljoen and Deon van der Vyver lost 16-13 to England. They have a record of L4 D1
Men’s Pairs, quarter-finals: Prince Nelounde, Wayne Rittmuller lost 16-11 to Wales, having jumped out to an early 5-0 lead after three ends
Para Women’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Desiree Levin and Victoria van der Merwe beat New Zealand 25-6
Women’s Fours, quarter-finals: Johanna Snyman, Esme Kruger, Bridgit Calitz and Thabelo Muvhango reached the semi-finals with a 12-11 win over England. The scores were 11-11 going into the final (16th) end
Para Mixed Pairs, Section A, Round 1: Tracy Smith, Thomas Smith, Hermanus Scholtz and Johanna van Rooyen lost 28-6 to Scotland
NETBALL
Pool A: South Africa 91 Barbados 36
South Africans bounced back from their opening defeat to Jamaica on Saturday night by with an impressive display less than 24 hours later against Barbados. The Caribbean opposition had also been thumped by Australia (95-18) in their opener, but SA showed more of what they are capable of. The quarter scores were 23-9, 20-0, 23-9, 25-9
PARA TRIATHLON
Men’s PTVI final: Gavin Kilpatrick (guide: Moodie Casper) finished seventh behind gold medallist David Ellis of England. Kilpatrick finished in 1hr 10min 7sec, which was 12:28 off the winner. He came out the water in eighth, moved up to sixth on the bike and then cross the line in the run in seventh. David Jones (guide: Kennedy Rohan) did not start
Women’s PTVI final: Linsay Engelbrecht (guide: Heimann Trish) finished fifth in 1:23:27, which was 12:55 behind gold medallist Katie Crowhurst of England. Engelbrecht made up ground on the run, after exiting both the swim and bike stages in seventh
RUGBY SEVENS
Men’s semi-final: South Africa 24 Australia 12
Australia led 12-5 but lost a player to a yellow card on the stroke of half time and SA capitalised when Angelo Davids scored his second try of the match to make it 12-12 at the interval. Shortly afterwards Selvyn Davids scored and converted (19-12) from a charge-down kick. Angelo Davids sealed things in the final minute with his 10th try of the Games for 24-12
Final: GOLD! South Africa 31 Fiji 7
The 2014 champions South Africa took the lead when Muller du Plessis scored wide out after a kick pass by Selvyn Davids and Shaun Williams converted. JC Pretorius soon made it 12-0 with a try in the same corner. Williams then made it 17-0 after good work by Pretorius and headed into half-time with a commanding lead. Du Plessis got his second try and Williams added the extras for a 24-0 lead with less than five minutes to go. Fiji got on the board with a try three minutes from time. Mfundo Ndhlovu had the final say though
Women’s Playoff for 7th and 8th: South Africa 52 0 Sri Lanka
SA ensured they finished seventh by recording their first win of the competition. It was a big one too. Having led 33-10 at half-time, they stretched away to win 52-0
SWIMMING
Men’s 200m butterfly, heats: Chad Le Clos finished second in his heat in 1:56.85 after leading at halfway and qualified second quickest for the final, taking place exactly 10 years to the night he beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics
Final: Chad Le Clos surged to the SILVER medal, being out-touched to a fourth successive gold by New Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt. 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, Clareburt, in lane four, came through strongly, and got to the wall first with his final stroke.
Men’s 50m backstroke, heats: Pieter Coetze, who took 100m gold, won his heat in 24.95 to qualify fastest heading into the semi-finals
Semi-final: Pieter Coetze won the second semi-final race in 24.81 with a powerful last 25 metres of the race. The South African teenager qualified fastest for the final
Men’s 100m freestyle, heats: Pieter Coetze was seventh in his heat in 50.33 and qualified for the semi-finals in 16th spot, while Guy Brooks was fifth in his heat in 50.68 for 19th overall and he didn’t reach the semi-finals
Men’s 100m breaststroke, final: Brenden Crawford finished eighth in 1:01.98. Gold went to England’s James Wilby in 59.25sec
Men’s SB8 100m breaststroke, final: Christian Sadie finished fifth in 1:22.14, with Joshua Willmer (NZ) taking gold in 1:14.12
Women’s 200m breaststroke, heats: Olympic champion Tatjana Schoenmaker won her heat in a fast 2:21.76 to qualify first for the final. It was quicker than the time which won gold at this year’s World Championships. Kaylene Corbett finished second in her heat in 2:25.08 and qualified fourth fastest for the final
Final: Tatjana Schoenmaker led from start to finish to win the GOLD medal in 2:21.92, with Kaylene Corbett taking the BRONZE with a 2:23.67 effort, finishing strongly to miss out on silver by 0.02sec.
Women’s 50m butterfly, heats: Erin Gallagher finished fourth in her heat in 26.96, while birthday girl Rebecca Meder placed fourth in her heat in 27.16. Trinity Hearne was seventh in her heat in 27.83. Gallagher (10th) and Meder (11th) qualified for the semi-finals
Semi-finals: Erin Gallagher finished second in 26.15, with Rebecca Meder sixth in the same race 26.84. Gallagher qualified second fatest for tomorrow’s final, while Meder missed out
Women’s 50m freestyle, final: Emma Chelius finished fourth in 24.78, with Erin Gallagher eighth in 25.39. Australia had a 1-2-3 with Emma McKeon winning in 23.99
Women’s 100m backstroke, final: Rebecca Meder finished seventh in 1:02.06. Gold went to Australia’s Kaylee McKeown in a Games record 58.60
TRIATHLON
Mixed Team Relay final: Jamie Riddle, Simone Ackerman, Henri Schoeman and Shanae Williams combined to place eighth in 1hr 21min 17sec, some 4:37 behind gold medallists England. Riddle finished his swim/bike/run in fourth position (18:10) before handing over to Ackerman (21:41), as Team SA dropped to eighth. Schoeman (19:20) and Williams (22:06) finished off for SA
WEIGHTLIFTING
Women’s 59kg, final: Anneke Spies had a snatch of 85kg at her third attempt which placed her fourth after that phase. She then started with a 100kg success in the jerk and lifted 105kg in her third attempt for a combined 190kg score and fourth overall
Men’s 73kg, final: Jon-Antohein Phillips finished 10th after a snatch of 118kg and a jerk of 162kg gave him a combined tally of 280kg. Achinta Sheuli (India) took the gold with 313kg
WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL
Men’s Group A: South Africa 6 Malaysia 13
South Africa (Allen Mtatase, Cecil Dumond, Ayabonga Jim and Simanga Mbhele) were only trailing 6-4 at halfway (5min) and put up a good fight against their opponents. Dumond had the last say in the match with a one-pointer with time up on the clock
Women’s Group B: South Africa 3 Australia 21
(Aviwe Ngoni, Samkelisiwe Mbatha, Michelle Moganedi and Kelebogile Moeng)
Compiled by Gary Lemke in Birmingham