Team South Africa wraps up Paris 2024 Paralympics with 6 medals

The 2024 Paralympic Games have officially drawn to a close in Paris. 

Team South Africa walked away with two gold and four bronze medals.

Here’s a wrap-up of our medal winners:

Mpumelelo Mhlongo – Gold, bronze

Mhlongo had a phenomenal Paralympic Games. 

The 30-year-old walked away with gold in the Men’s 100m T44 and bronze in the Men’s 200m T64. 

He also broke the world record in the Men’s Long Jump T44 and Men’s 200m T44. 

Simone Kruger – Gold

She went to Paris hoping to prove a point as the F38 discus world champion and world record holder. 

She finished the 2020 Tokyo Games in fifth place. 

All that was missing from her ever-growing CV was the Paralympic Gold and the Paralympic record. 

She achieved both at this year’s games with a throw of 38.7m.

Louzanne Coetzee – Bronze

Coetzee made South Africa proud by winning the bronze medal in the women’s 1500m T11 event in Paris.

She finished with a personal best time of 4:35;49 alongside her guide Estean Badenhorst.

This is her third Paralympics medal – at the Tokyo 2020 Games, she won a silver in the same event and a bronze in the Marathon T12. 

Nicolas Pieter du Preez – Bronze

The Para-cyclist secured a bronze medal for South Africa in the Men’s H1 Individual Time Trial with a time of 36:07:05. 

This is his second Paralympic medal, he won gold at the Road Time Trial H1 event at the Tokyo 2020 Games. 

Donald Ramphadi and Lucas Sithole – Bronze

Ramphadi and Sithole put up a fierce fight to win Africa’s first-ever medal for wheelchair tennis.

Ramphadi rewrote history in 2023 when he became the first South African since 1981 to win a Roland Garros title. 

Sithole is the 2013 US Open wheelchair tennis quad champion.

He also won the 2016 Australian Open Grand Slam in doubles.