The SA group are mendacity sixth within the total standings on the multi-sport Video games with 23 medals (six gold, 9 silver and eight bronze).
The nationwide athletics group ended their medal drought on Thursday night time, with Masala Makatu claiming a silver medal on the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow.
Whereas there have been some close to misses in just a few occasions, visually impaired sprinter Makatu delivered, taking second place within the T12 males’s 100m remaining in 11.04 seconds (with the advantage of a +2.1m/s tailwind).
Behind him, Jaco Smith grabbed fourth spot in 11.24, crossing the road 0.18 exterior a spot on the rostrum
In different occasions, nationwide file holder Marione Fourie put up a battle within the girls’s 100m hurdles remaining, finishing the race in fourth place in 12.66 (+2.5m/s), simply 0.06 shy of a medal.
Within the males’s shot put remaining, Aiden Smith additionally grabbed fourth spot, touchdown the implement at 20.31m. He fell 68 centimetres in need of a spot on the rostrum.
And Tayla Kavanagh did effectively to set a private better of 14:58.49 within the girls’s 5,000m contest, although she settled for eighth place.
Heats and semifinals
In the meantime Sinesipho Dambile was the quickest athlete within the males’s 200m semifinals, successful his race in 19.82 (+2.3m/s).
In a separate race, Mthi Mthimkulu settled for fourth spot in his half-lap semifinal in 20.39 and he missed out on a spot within the medal battle.
Dambile was set to line up among the many favourites for the gold medal within the remaining to be held on Friday night time (10.25pm).
Within the early session on Thursday, three different athletes saved their medal hopes alive by progressing past the opening spherical of their occasions on day 4 of the monitor and area competitors.
Sprinter Zakithi Nene was third in his 400m warmth in 45.70, sneaking in because the final of the qualifiers after Jamaican athlete Antonio Watson was disqualified from the race, and he earned a lane within the one-lap medal contest to be held on Saturday.
Javelin thrower Douw Smith despatched his spear crusing out to 80.64m, attaining the third finest distance of the qualifying spherical and securing a spot in Friday night time’s remaining (9.15pm).
And middle-distance runner Karabo Extra ended fifth in her mile (1 609m) warmth in 4:37.97, incomes a spot within the remaining to be held on Saturday night.
In different sports activities, weightlifter Christoffel Rheeders took eighth place within the males’s 110kg+ division, lifting a complete of 303kg.
The SA netball group had been handed a 58-54 defeat towards England, ending third of their pool and lacking out on a spot within the semifinals.
