South Africa won 5 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) at the 1996 Games: Gold - 1) Penny Heyns: women's 100 meter breaststroke and women's 200 meter breaststroke
2) Josia Thugwane: men's marathon Silver - 1) Hezekiel Sepeng: men's 800 meter run Bronze - 1) Marianne Kriel: women's 100 meter backstroke
The most medals won by South Africa at the Summer Olympics was 10 at the 1920 Games in Antwerp and the 1952 Games in Helsinki. The most gold medals won by South Africa at the Summer Olympics was 4 at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
yes- and won 3 gold medals, 2 silver, and 1 bronze.
South Africa has participated in 19 summer Olympic games and 6 winter Olympic games.
Through the 2010 Games in Vancouver, South Africa has won 72 Olympic medals (20 gold, 25 silver, 27 bronze). In 2012 they sent 125 athletes to the Games, 67 men and 58 women, to compete in 17 sports and won 6 medals 3 Gold 2 silver and 1 Bronze
Swimming and Rowing were the 2 Sports for the 3 Gold Medals
South Korea won 30 medals (9 gold, 12 silver, 9 bronze) at the 2004 Games in Athens.
The Olympics have never been held in Africa or South America.
South Africa did not win a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. They did win 2 silver medals ... 1) Elena Meyer - women's 10000 meter run 2) Wayne Ferreira and Piet Norval - men's doubles tennis
There are 302 events at the 2008 Olympic Games in which medals will be handed out.
South Korea has won a total of 215 medals including the summer and winter games. * 184 Summer * 31 Winter
It was in the summmer olympic games,1976
South Africa and Egypt have been participants since the first modern olympic games. From 1936 onwards, more African countries like Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ethiopia etc entered into the Olympic games