The Commonwealth Games started yesterday, 23 July. The Opening Ceremony was absolutely amazing and Team SA looked incredible in their yellow and black attire. Cecil Sebastian Africa led Team SA into Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland by carrying our flag high!
South Africa has been very successful on this stage, never finishing lower than 6th place with a total of 33 medals bagged since 1998.
Make sure you stay in tune with the 2014 Commonwealth Games by penciling the below dates into your calendar!
SWIMMING
Heats (11:30 – 14:30)
– Roland Schoeman, 50m butterfly
– Myles Brown, 400m freestyle men
– Karin Prinsloo, 200m freestyle women
– Marlies Ross, 400m individual medley
– Team South Africa, 4x100m freestyle relay women
Finals (20:00 – 22:45)
-100m backstroke men (semi)
– 50m butterfly men (semi)
– 50m breaststroke women (semi)
– 100m butterfly women (semi)
– 100m freestyle S9 men para
– 400m freestyle men
– 200m breaststroke men
– 200m freestyle women
– 400m individual medley women
– 4x100m freestyle relay women
BADMINTON
Preliminaries (10:00 – 23:30)
– Team South Africa
BOXING
Preliminaries (14:00 – 23:30)
– Ayabonga Sonjica, men 56kg
– Thulani Mbenge, men 69kg
– Paul Schafer, men +91kg
– Luvuyo Sizani, men 81kg
CYCLING (Track)
Qualifiers (13:00 – 19:45)
– Bernard Esterhuizen, sprint qualifying – Kellan Gouvaris, Nolan Hoffman, Evan Carstens, 4 000m team pursuit
Finals (17:00 – 19:45)
– 4 000m team pursuit men
– team sprint men
– sprint b tandem women para
– 500m time trial women
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
Finals (14:00 – 22:30)
– Team final
HOCKEY
Preliminaries Women (15:00 – 18:30)
– South Africa v Trinidad & Tobago
JUDO
Preliminaries (11:00 – 17:00)
– Daniel le Grange, men -60kg
– Siyabulela Mabula, men -66kg
– Sinothundo Mva, women -52kg
Finals (19:00 – 21:45)
– men -73kg
– men -66kg
– women -52kg
LAWN BOWLS
Round 1& 2 (9:45 – 22:45)
– Gerry Baker/Jason Evans, men’s pairs
– Bobby Donnelly/Rudi Jacobs/Prince Nelvonde, men’s trips
– Colleen Piketh, women’s singles
– Tracey-Lee Botha/Susan Nel/Santjie Steyn/Esme Steyn, women’s fours
– Gyndolene Nel/Herman Scholtz/Geoff Newcombe/Johanna van Rooyen, mixed pairs para
NETBALL
Preliminaries (10:30 – 14:00)
– Malawi v Northern Ireland
TRIATHLON
Final (11:00 – 13:00)
– Richard Murray, Henri Schoeman, Wian Sullwald, men
– Kate Roberts, Gillian Sanders, women
WEIGHTLIFTING
Preliminaries and Final 11:00 – 13:00)
– Anrich Philips, men 56kg
– Portia Vries, women 48kg