Team SA ended Saturday with 28 medals at the Commonwealth Games. This is how they fared, with action across six sports on the penultimate day of Glasgow 2026. Zakithi Nene won a 400m bronze in the morning session at the track and field, while Timothy Meusen won silver on the judo mat. The evening athletics session brought one more medal, from Kyle Rademeyer in the pole vault.
Team SA medals tally: 7 gold, 11 silver 10 bronze (28 in total). That leaves them 11th on the medals table.
ATHLETICS
BRONZE! Men’s 400m, final: Zakithi Nene took 3rd position, running in lane 2, with a time of 45.21sec.
Men’s 4x100m, semi-finals: Team SA (Mvuyo Moss, Cheswill Johnson, Bradley Nkoana and Akani Simbine) won their semi-final in 38.30, which sees them go into the final as gold medal favourites.
SILVER! Men’s pole vault, final: Kyle Rademeyer soared to a season’s best 5.70m, which earned him the silver medal in a final won by the impressive Australian Kurtis Marshall. Rademeyer moved into second when he cleared 5.70m with his second attempt, but came up short with his three attempts at 5.80m.
Women’s javelin, final: Jo-Ane du Plessis, the Olympic silver medallist, is still building towards form after an operation and was forced to settle for 6th here with a best throw of 56.22m. She had five throws within a distance of 55.02m and 56.22m.
Men’s 4x100m, final: Team SA (Mvuyo Moss, Cheswill Johnson, Bradley Nkoana and Akani Simbine) had, by their own admission, a night where things didn’t work out as they crossed the line 5th in a final won by Australia in 38.07. Further disappointment was to follow when Team SA were disqualified.
Men’s One Mile, final: Tshepo Tshite called the race “the most physical I have ever run” after Josh Kerr, the world record holder, bolted to a popular victory in 3:54.42. Tshite crossed the line in 10th in 3:57.43.
Women’s One Mile, final: Australia’s rise at these Games suggest they are building something special for their home Olympics in 2032. Here they finished 1-2-3, with Team SA’s Karabo More finishing 12th in 4:50.96.
PARA ATHLETICS
Men’s F57 shot put, final: Nicolaas Strydom finished 4th with an effort of 10.94m, a best for the season.
Women’s T38, 200m, final: Sheryl James finished 8th in 29.34, with Australia’s Rhiannon Clarke taking gold in 26.92.
JUDO
SILVER! Men’s -81kg: In the quarter-finals Timothy Meuwsen beat Peniamina Percival of Samoa by Ippon (100-0) after 17 seconds to advance to the semi-finals. There he beat Odysseas Georgakis of Cyprus by Ippon (100-0) after 6min 40sec. He then came up against Amir Daniel Bin Abdul Majeed in the final. The Malaysian won by decision, 10-0.
Men’s -90kg, Round of 16: Thomas Breytenbach lost by Ippon (100-0) after 1:08 against Scotland’s Scott Cusack
Women’s -63kg: In the Round of 16 Skye Knoester won her match against Elizabeth Oduro (Ghana) by Ippon (100-0) when her opponent was DQ’d. She was then thrust into the quarter-finals where she lost to Laurence Biron of Canada, by Yuko (2-1) after four minutes of intense action. That saw her head to the repechage (A/B) and she was again in destructive form, beating Australia’s Maeve Coughlan by Ippon (100-0) after 7min 12sec. She was back for a bronze medal match, which she lost, to India’s Unnati Sharma by Ippon (0-100) after 1min 07sec,
LAWN BOWLS
Men’s Pairs, Section C, Round 5: Team SA (Jason Evans, Paul White) lost to Scotland’s Paul Foster and Alex Marshall 2-0 (7-1, 5-2). They won three and lost two of their matches to miss out on progressing to the semi-finals.
Women’s singles, Section C, Round 4: Bridget Herselman ended her Games campaign on a high when beating Nayanmoni Saikia, of India, 4-7, 18-3 and 1-0 (tiebreak). In a remarkable second set Herselman drew three shots at the 1st and 4th ends and four shots at the 3rd to lead 10-3. She then picked up another four shots at the 5th and two each at the 6th and 7th.
PARA LAWN BOWLS
Men’s Pairs, B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Team SA (Gareth Reece-Gibbs, Jarid James) beat Singapore (Mawjit Singh, Khirmern Bin Mohamad) on a tie-break to finish 5th in their pool with two wins and three defeats. The South Africans won 1-5, 6-0 (1-0, tiebreak).
TRACK CYCLING
Sprint qualifying: Mitchell Sparrow faced a nervous wait after putting a time of 10.060 up on the board at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. The top 16 of 29 qualifiers advanced to the quarter-finals and while he was being nudged closer to the cutoff, he was still 14th with four riders to go. Then 15th with three to go, 16th with two remaining… and then into 18th. He averaged 71.571km/h for the 3.5 laps.
Women’s 25km Points race final: S’annara Grove finished 16th with 2 points.
Photo: ANTON GEYSER/Team SA